Category: federal circuit
Alice’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…
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 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 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…
Read MoreEnfish Is Not a Panacea, But TLI Communications Is Not a Death Knell
Monday | June 27, 2016By Shane Skwarekcourt 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…
Read MoreWhen Can Conventional Portions of a Patent Claim Be Ignored?
Tuesday | May 3, 2016By Shane Skwarekfederal circuit, patent claim, patent eligibility, subject-matter eligibilityOn April 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit continued its post-Alice pattern of upholding claim rejections on subject-matter ineligibility grounds under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In In re Brown, No. 2015-1852, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS…
Read MoreWhen Can Conventional Portions of a Patent Claim Be Ignored?
Tuesday | May 3, 2016By James Watsonfederal circuit, patent claim, patent eligibility, subject-matter eligibilityOn April 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit continued its post-Alice pattern of upholding claim rejections on subject-matter ineligibility grounds under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In In re Brown, No. 2015-1852, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS…
Read MoreWhen Are Your Method Claims at Risk of Challenge Under Covered Business Method Patent Review?
Tuesday | March 8, 2016By James Watsonfederal circuit, patent claim, subject-matter eligibilityThe Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Blue Calypso, LLC v. Groupon, Inc., Nos. 2015-1391 et al., 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 3728 (Fed. Cir. March 1, 2016), which involved an appeal from final decisions resulting…
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