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A Spring Thaw in the Availability of Patents for Software Inventions?

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Patent lawyers, strategists, entrepreneurs and investors in software and Internet enterprises are acutely aware of “the Alice problem.” The Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International caused a chill...more

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Federal Circuit Holds District Court Abstractness Analysis Too Abstract for Alice under 35 USC § 101

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Clients in the software space now have stronger arguments for subject matter eligibility, following the Federal Circuit decision in Enfish LLC v. Microsoft Corp. (May 12, 2016). The decision also touches on novelty,...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Latest Post-Alice Guidance from the Federal Circuit

On Thursday, May 12, 2016, the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court’s finding of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as an unpatentable abstract idea, of a software patent concerning a “self-referential” database in Enfish v....more

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Major 101 Decision – Enfish v. Microsoft

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Today in Enfish v. Microsoft, the Federal Circuit held software claims patent eligible, reversing the district court’s grant of summary judgment on 101. This is a major decision because it is only the second since Alice where...more

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IP Newsflash - November 2014

Central District of California Clarifies the Section 101 Analysis and Finds Another Two Patents Invalid - On November 3, 2014, Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the Central District of California spent the better part of...more

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