Category: court ruling
The Federal Circuit Finds Finjan’s Behavior-Based Virus Scanning Patent-Eligible
Thursday | January 11, 2018By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, federal circuit, patent attorney, software patentFinjan owns several patents in the field of cybersecurity and virus protection, which it asserted against Symantec-owned Blue Coat Systems. Over the objections of Blue Coat, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California concluded that the subject…
Read MorePTAB Looks to Specification for Patent-Eligibility
Wednesday | August 23, 2017By James Watsoncourt ruling, patent application, patent attorney, patent eligibilityDuring the past week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued opinions in response to two requests for rehearing that shed light on how it decides questions of subject-matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In Ex parte Dickson et al.,…
Read MorePTAB Looks to Specification for Patent-Eligibility
Wednesday | August 23, 2017By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, patent application, patent attorney, patent eligibilityDuring the past week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued opinions in response to two requests for rehearing that shed light on how it decides questions of subject-matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In Ex parte Dickson et al.,…
Read MoreEasyWeb’s Claims to Automation of Sender Identity and Format Conversion for Electronic Messages Found Invalid
Thursday | May 18, 2017By James Watsoncourt ruling, federal circuit, intellectual property, patent attorney, patent eligibilityBefore the case arrived at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Twitter secured summary judgment on grounds that the subject matter of the asserted claims was ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The District Court…
Read MoreEasyWeb’s Claims to Automation of Sender Identity and Format Conversion for Electronic Messages Found Invalid
Thursday | May 18, 2017By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, federal circuit, intellectual property, patent attorney, patent eligibilityBefore the case arrived at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Twitter secured summary judgment on grounds that the subject matter of the asserted claims was ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The District Court…
Read MorePatent Drafting Strategy Dooms Mentor Graphics’ Claims Requiring a “Machine-Readable Medium”
Friday | March 24, 2017By James Watsoncourt ruling, intellectual property, patent application, patent attorney, software patentAsserting its U.S. Patent No. 7,069,526, Mentor Graphics accused EVE-USA of infringing software claims involving debugging a fabricated integrated circuit. The claims were written to cover the media on which software is stored, requiring a “machine-readable medium” that was programmed…
Read MorePatent Drafting Strategy Dooms Mentor Graphics’ Claims Requiring a “Machine-Readable Medium”
Friday | March 24, 2017By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, intellectual property, patent application, patent attorney, software patentAsserting its U.S. Patent No. 7,069,526, Mentor Graphics accused EVE-USA of infringing software claims involving debugging a fabricated integrated circuit. The claims were written to cover the media on which software is stored, requiring a “machine-readable medium” that was programmed…
Read MoreThales Visionix’s Patent Claims for Tracking a Moving Object Relative to Moving Reference Frame Confirmed Patent-Eligible
Friday | March 10, 2017By James Watsoncourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claimsThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on March 8, 2017, that another set of software patent claims were directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Thales Visionix v. United States, No. 2016-5150, 2107…
Read MoreThales Visionix’s Patent Claims for Tracking a Moving Object Relative to Moving Reference Frame Confirmed Patent-Eligible
Friday | March 10, 2017By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claimsThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on March 8, 2017, that another set of software patent claims were directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Thales Visionix v. United States, No. 2016-5150, 2107…
Read MoreAlice’s Common-Sense Approach Leads to Rejection of Patent Claims Requiring an MRI Machine as an Abstract Idea
Wednesday | January 18, 2017By James Watsoncourt ruling, federal circuit, patent claimsOn December 30, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent Office entered a new ground of rejection on subject-matter ineligibility grounds for claims involving an MRI machine. Ex parte Itagaki et al.[1] presented claims requiring an…
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