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Latest Federal Court Cases: Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp.

Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp., Appeal No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed a question of first impression concerning whether developments in machine...more

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A New Alice Plot Twist - Can a Composition of Matter Be an Abstract Idea?

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The patent world tends to think that the Supreme Court’s framework in Alice is a template for determining the eligibility of software and business method inventions. Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, abstract ideas are not eligible for...more

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Access Denied: Patent for Controlling Entry Found Ineligible Under Section 101

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Earlier this month in Luxer Corp. v. Package Concierge, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found that U.S. Patent No. 11,625,675 was ineligible under Section 101. In assessing the defendant's motion to...more

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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending February 14, 2025

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Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Groupon, Inc., No. 2023-1359 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Feb. 10, 2025). Opinion by Reyna, joined by Prost and Taranto. Kroy sued Groupon for patent infringement, asserting thirteen claims. Groupon...more

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Patent Eligibility: The Call for Supreme Court Clarity and for an End to Summary Affirmances

The U.S. Supreme Court has once again been urged to revisit 35 U.S.C. § 101, the statute governing patent eligibility. Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. (AED) filed a petition for writ of certiorari, challenging the Federal...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Invalidation Of Photo-Tagging Patents Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 And Alice/Mayo

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On September 17, 2024, Judges Taranto, Chen and Cunningham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) upheld the invalidation of a patent belonging to Angel Technologies Group, LLC and dismissed...more

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Federal Circuit Reverses § 101 Summary Judgment Of Invalidity, Holding That Describing Claims At High Level Of Abstraction And...

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On September 9, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) reversed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s decision finding asserted claims invalid under 35 U.S.C. §...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: An Expert Need Not Have Acquired the Requisite Skill Level Prior to the Time of the Invention

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2022-1884, 8/28/2024) (Prost, Taranto, and Chen) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed two final judgments of the...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2024 #2

Mobile Acuity Ltd. v. Blippar Ltd., Appeal No. 2022-2216 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 6, 2024) In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidity of all claims of two asserted patents as...more

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Federal Circuit Applies WesternGeco Framework to Expert’s Effort to Seek Royalties Flowing from Customers Overseas

In 2010, Trading Technologies International, Inc. (“TT”) filed suit against IBG LLC and its subsidiary Interactive Brokers LLC for patent infringement. The four patents in question, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,766,304; 6,772,132;...more

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Virtually Done: Computer Visualization Patents Are Ineligible for Protection

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Addressing subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s finding that patents related to computer visualizations of medical scans were patent...more

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The Federal Circuit Once Again Shows Its Willingness to Reject Conclusory Allegations of Inventiveness

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The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s grant of Zillow Group Inc.’s (“Zillow”) motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) because the two International Business Machines Corporation...more

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Claim to High-Yield Enzymatic Production of Stevia Compound Held Invalid as Abstract Idea

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Naturally occurring compounds generically referred to as steviols are used as sugar substitutes because they impart sweetness without contributing calories. These compounds exist in different forms, with some being sweeter...more

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EDVA Judge Rules That Geolocation Patents Are Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

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On September 18, in identical opinions issued in separate cases against Google and Apple, EDVA District Judge Michael Nachmanoff ruled that four patents directed toward geolocation of mobile devices claimed patent-ineligible...more

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Podcast: The Briefing - A Prototypical Corporate Salesperson is Not Patentable

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The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated seven patents owned by an AI technology company after applying the two-step Alice test. Scott Hervey and Audrey Millemann talk about this decision on this episode of The...more

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Automating Without Innovating: Patents Held Invalid

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People.ai, Inc. v. Clari Inc., 2022-1364, (Fed. Cir. April. 7, 2023) - In an appeal before the Federal Circuit, plaintiff People.ai argued to no avail that the Northern District of California erred in its finding of...more

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Hantz Software LLC v. Sage Intacct, Inc.

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In Hantz Software, LLC, v. Sage Intacct, Inc.1, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court for the Northern District of California to invalidate patents that are ineligible under...more

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Got Markedly Different Milk?: The Federal Circuit Weighs in on 101 and Products of Nature

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In ChromaDex, Inc., v. Elysium Health, Inc., a Federal Circuit panel (“Panel”) contributed to the ongoing discussion on patent-eligible subject matter. The Panel affirmed the district court’s judgment that the asserted claims...more

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Chromadex, Inc. v. Elysium Health, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2023)

Judge Giles Sutherland Rich, famous for many things (including being the principal author of the 1952 Patent Act and in particular Section 103, which cabined at least for a while the Supreme Court’s penchant for invalidating...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patent claims found to lack patentable subject matter because they used “functional language, at a...

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - NATURE SIMULATION SYSTEMS INC. v. AUTODESK, INC. [OPINION] (2020-2257, 10/17/2022) (Newman, Lourie, and Dyk) - Newman, J. The Court reversed a district court judgment that the...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2022 #3

International Business Machines Corp. v. Zillow Group, Inc. et al., Appeal No. 2021-2350 (Fed. Cir. 2022) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a Rule 12(c) judgment on the pleadings that IBM’s...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Assignor estoppel applies to claims that are not "materially broader" than the originally assigned...

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - In Re MCDONALD [OPINION] (2021-1697, 8/10/2022) (Newman, Stoll, and Cunningham) - Cunningham, J. The Court affirmed a PTAB decision rejecting reissue claims under 35 U.S.C. §...more

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District Court Rules PureCircle Steviol Glycoside Patents Invalid

On May 23rd, U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California granted summary judgement to Defendant Sweegen, Inc. on its motion that Plaintiff Pure Circle USA Inc.'s claims in suit were invalid...more

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Patent Claiming Mapping Gemstones to Blockchain Invalid Under Section 101

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In a recent case decided by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff, Max Rady, alleged that he developed a method to "record to a blockchain the individual identification signatures of...more

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