Category: patent claim
Solo Inventor’s Claims to Methods of Rendering 3D Graphics Invalidated as Abstract Idea
Thursday | March 16, 2017By James Watsonfederal circuit, patent claim, software patent, subject-matter eligibilityOn March 15, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the software patent claims before it were invalid because the claimed subject matter fell within one of the judicially created exceptions to 35 U.S.C. §…
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 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 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 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 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 MoreSoftware Can Be Patent-Eligible, But the Eligibility Threshold Remains Unclear
Monday | May 16, 2016By Shane Skwarekpatent claim, patent eligibilityFor the second time since the Supreme Court issued its decision regarding patentable subject matter in Alice, the Federal Circuit has found a software invention executable on generic computer hardware to be patent-eligible subject matter. Enfish had sued Microsoft for…
Read MoreSoftware Can Be Patent-Eligible, But the Eligibility Threshold Remains Unclear
Monday | May 16, 2016By James Watsonpatent claim, patent eligibilityFor the second time since the Supreme Court issued its decision regarding patentable subject matter in Alice, the Federal Circuit has found a software invention executable on generic computer hardware to be patent-eligible subject matter. Enfish had sued Microsoft for…
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…
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