Category: Court Decision
Computer-Centric Details Critical to Success in Uniloc Decision
Monday | June 3, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claims, patent infringementThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidation of claims in two patents, and reversed the district court’s finding that two other patents in the same family were invalid for lack of subject-matter ineligibility, in Uniloc…
Read MoreWin Some, Lose Some
Saturday | May 4, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claims, patent infringementIn February of 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential opinion finding that claims involving an improvement to a GUI for software that enabled traders to place orders at a particular price level (not…
Read MoreIs Everyone Skeptical of the U.S. Patent Office’s New Guidelines?
Wednesday | April 10, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claims, patent infringementThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently cast doubt on the 2019 Updated Guidelines on Subject-Matter Eligibility issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Fed. Circuit Cleveland Clinic Found. v. True Health Diagnostics LLC, No.…
Read MoreFederal Circuit Finds Method of Treatment Claims Patent-Eligible in Natural Alternatives
Tuesday | March 26, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claims, patent eligibilityIn Natural Alternatives Int’l, Inc. v. Creative Compounds, LLC, No. 2018-1295, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7647 (Fed. Cir. Mar 15, 20190, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found claims to administering a dosage of beta-alanine to a…
Read MoreTop 5 Reasons for Outsourcing Legal Services
Friday | March 8, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claims, patent infringementThe best in-house legal counsel does not just outsource legal work for cheaper foreign labor. They also outsource legal work for expert work done domestically. This transfer of work is called legal process outsourcing. The most recent trend in this space…
Read MorePanel of U.S. Patent Court Concludes Diagnostic Methods Are Not Patentable
Wednesday | February 6, 2019By James Watsoncourt ruling, patent eligibilityThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles all patent appeals in the United States, has held that diagnostic methods not requiring new detection techniques or resulting in new treatments are categorically ineligible for patent protection. In…
Read MoreNo Fun! U.S. Patent Court Finds Claims to Dice Game Patent-Ineligible
Monday | January 14, 2019By James Watsoncourt ruling, patent claimsIn a decision captioned In re Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that claims to a dice game requiring unconventional dice were not eligible for patent protection. The Court relied primarily on…
Read MoreNo Fun! U.S. Patent Court Finds Claims to Dice Game Patent-Ineligible
Monday | January 14, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent claimsIn a decision captioned In re Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that claims to a dice game requiring unconventional dice were not eligible for patent protection. The Court relied primarily on…
Read MoreJudge Plager’s Dissent Calls for Abandonment of Unworkable Abstract Idea Test
Thursday | July 26, 2018By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, intellectual property, patent eligibilityThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed that software claims to using the unused capacity of a display device by displaying content in that unused capacity were not patent-eligible on July 20, 2018. The claims at issue…
Read MoreJudge Plager’s Dissent Calls for Abandonment of Unworkable Abstract Idea Test
Thursday | July 26, 2018By James Watsoncourt ruling, intellectual property, patent eligibilityThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed that software claims to using the unused capacity of a display device by displaying content in that unused capacity were not patent-eligible on July 20, 2018. The claims at issue…
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