Category: Court Decision
Elec. Power Group’s Patent Claims to Computer-Aided Performance Monitoring of a Power Grid Construed as Ineligible Subject Matter
Monday | August 8, 2016By James Watsoncourt ruling, patent attorney, patent claims, patent eligibilityIn its Elec. Power Group v. Alstom, Inc. decision dated August 1, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Central District of California’s grant of a motion for summary judgment on…
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Monday | August 8, 2016By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent attorney, patent claims, patent eligibilityIn its Elec. Power Group v. Alstom, Inc. decision dated August 1, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Central District of California’s grant of a motion for summary judgment on…
Read MoreLending Tree’s Patent Claims to Matching Borrowers with Lenders over the Internet Invalidated as an Abstract Ide
Monday | August 1, 2016By James Watsoncourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claimThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina’s denial of a motion for summary judgment on July 25, 2016, invalidating patent claims LendingTree had accused Zillow of…
Read MoreLending Tree’s Patent Claims to Matching Borrowers with Lenders over the Internet Invalidated as an Abstract Ide
Monday | August 1, 2016By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claimThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina’s denial of a motion for summary judgment on July 25, 2016, invalidating patent claims LendingTree had accused Zillow of…
Read MoreComputer-Implemented Method of Simultaneously Generating Construction Payroll and Certified Records for Government Projects Invalidated as an Abstract Idea
Monday | July 18, 2016By James Watsonpatent eligibility, Patent Protection, software patentIn Shortridge v. Found. Constr. Payroll Serv., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the invalidation of Shortridge’s claims directed to software for construction companies that simultaneously generates employee payroll and certified public records required by certain…
Read MoreComputer-Implemented Method of Simultaneously Generating Construction Payroll and Certified Records for Government Projects Invalidated as an Abstract Idea
Monday | July 18, 2016By Shane Skwarekpatent eligibility, Patent Protection, software patentIn Shortridge v. Found. Constr. Payroll Serv., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the invalidation of Shortridge’s claims directed to software for construction companies that simultaneously generates employee payroll and certified public records required by certain…
Read MoreIn Vitro Inc.’s Method of Refreezing Viable Hepatocytes Confirmed Patentable
Thursday | July 7, 2016By James Watsonfederal circuit, patent attorney, patent claim, patent eligibilityOn July 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the grant of a motion for summary judgment, finding the subject matter of the asserted claims patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The U.S. District Court…
Read MoreIn Vitro Inc.’s Method of Refreezing Viable Hepatocytes Confirmed Patentable
Thursday | July 7, 2016By Shane Skwarekfederal circuit, patent attorney, patent claim, patent eligibilityOn July 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the grant of a motion for summary judgment, finding the subject matter of the asserted claims patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The U.S. District Court…
Read MoreBASCOM’s Nonstandard Combination of Known Software Elements Implemented on Generic Computer Hardware Confirmed Patentable
Wednesday | June 29, 2016By James Watsoncourt ruling, patent eligibility, patent infringement, software patentThe Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of a motion to dismiss BASCOM Global Internet Services’ patent infringement claims on the grounds that the claims recite patent-eligible subject matter on June 27, 2016. The Federal District Court for…
Read MoreEnfish Is Not a Panacea, But TLI Communications Is Not a Death Knell
Monday | June 27, 2016By James Watsoncourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claim, software patentOn May 17, 2016, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s invalidation of the claims of several TLI Communications patents on a motion to dismiss. A.V. Auto had argued that…
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