Category: federal circuit
Federal Circuit Holds Making Liners for Driveshafts Doesn’t Practically Apply Laws of Nature
Monday | October 7, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingfederal circuitpatent eligibilityThe trend in the U.S. for courts to invalidate growing numbers of patents, particularly software, business method, and medical diagnostic patents, as being directed to unpatentable abstract ideas, laws of nature, and natural phenomena has found its way to mechanical…
Read MoreNew Federal Circuit Opinion May Limit Impact of Berkheimer Decision
Monday | August 20, 2018By Shane Skwarekfederal circuitintellectual propertypatent applicationsubject-matter eligibilityIn BSG Tech LLC v. Buyseasons, Inc., No. 2017-1980, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22704 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 15, 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that claims to indexing a database according to relative historical usage information were…
Read MoreFederal Circuit Pushes Back Against Premature Grant of § 101 Motions
Sunday | February 18, 2018By James Watsoncourt rulingfederal circuitintellectual propertypatent claimsIn a pair of decisions, the Federal Circuit has raised the standard for motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment on grounds that patent claims are unpatentably abstract. In Berkheimer v. HP Inc., No. 2017-1437, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS…
Read MoreCore Wireless Licensing’s GUI Claims Found Patent-Eligible by the Federal Circuit
Monday | January 29, 2018By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingfederal circuitsoftware patentThe Federal Circuit has confirmed that the subject matter of Core Wireless Licensing’s claims to a graphical user interface (GUI) is patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Elecs., Inc., No. 2016-2684, 2018 U.S. App.…
Read MoreCore Wireless Licensing’s GUI Claims Found Patent-Eligible by the Federal Circuit
Monday | January 29, 2018By James Watsoncourt rulingfederal circuitsoftware patentThe Federal Circuit has confirmed that the subject matter of Core Wireless Licensing’s claims to a graphical user interface (GUI) is patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Elecs., Inc., No. 2016-2684, 2018 U.S. App.…
Read MoreThe Federal Circuit Finds Finjan’s Behavior-Based Virus Scanning Patent-Eligible
Thursday | January 11, 2018By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingfederal circuitpatent attorneysoftware 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 MoreThe Federal Circuit Finds Finjan’s Behavior-Based Virus Scanning Patent-Eligible
Thursday | January 11, 2018By James Watsoncourt rulingfederal circuitpatent attorneysoftware 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 MoreFed. Cir. Affirms Award of Attorney’s Fees, Finding Claims to Remote Ordering Clearly Ineligible for Patenting
Monday | December 18, 2017By James Watsonfederal circuitintellectual propertypatent attorneypatent eligibilityThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a Delaware District Court’s award of attorney’s fees because the patent owner should have known its claims were objectively ineligible for patent protection under § 101 in Inventor Holdings, LLC v.…
Read MoreFed. Cir. Affirms Award of Attorney’s Fees, Finding Claims to Remote Ordering Clearly Ineligible for Patenting
Monday | December 18, 2017By Shane Skwarekfederal circuitintellectual propertypatent attorneypatent eligibilityThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a Delaware District Court’s award of attorney’s fees because the patent owner should have known its claims were objectively ineligible for patent protection under § 101 in Inventor Holdings, LLC v.…
Read MorePatent Assertion Entity’s Claims to Malware Detection Invalidated as an Abstract Idea
Thursday | November 9, 2017By James Watsonfederal circuitintellectual propertypatent eligibilitysoftware patentThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the grant of a motion to dismiss on subject-matter ineligibility grounds in Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Erie Indem. Co., No. 2017-1147, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 22060 (Fed. Cir. Nov.…
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