Category: patent claims
Amazon Brand Registry
Tuesday | December 22, 2020By Shane Skwarekintellectual propertypatent attorneypatent claimpatent claimspatent infringementpatent lawpatent lawyerPatent ProtectionWhat is Amazon Brand Registry? Brand owners work hard to protect their intellectual property (IP), including their trademarked brands. Amazon has recently become one of the largest companies in the world by providing a marketplace for sellers and buyers to…
Read MoreComputer-Centric Details Critical to Success in Uniloc Decision
Monday | June 3, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimspatent infringementThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidation of claims in two patents, and reversed the district court’s finding that two other patents in the same family were invalid for lack of subject-matter ineligibility, in Uniloc…
Read MoreWin Some, Lose Some
Saturday | May 4, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimspatent infringementIn February of 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential opinion finding that claims involving an improvement to a GUI for software that enabled traders to place orders at a particular price level (not…
Read MoreIs Everyone Skeptical of the U.S. Patent Office’s New Guidelines?
Wednesday | April 10, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimspatent infringementThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently cast doubt on the 2019 Updated Guidelines on Subject-Matter Eligibility issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Fed. Circuit Cleveland Clinic Found. v. True Health Diagnostics LLC, No.…
Read MoreFederal Circuit Finds Method of Treatment Claims Patent-Eligible in Natural Alternatives
Tuesday | March 26, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimspatent eligibilityIn Natural Alternatives Int’l, Inc. v. Creative Compounds, LLC, No. 2018-1295, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7647 (Fed. Cir. Mar 15, 20190, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found claims to administering a dosage of beta-alanine to a…
Read MoreTop 5 Reasons for Outsourcing Legal Services
Friday | March 8, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimspatent infringementThe best in-house legal counsel does not just outsource legal work for cheaper foreign labor. They also outsource legal work for expert work done domestically. This transfer of work is called legal process outsourcing. The most recent trend in this space…
Read MoreNo Fun! U.S. Patent Court Finds Claims to Dice Game Patent-Ineligible
Monday | January 14, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt rulingpatent claimsIn a decision captioned In re Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that claims to a dice game requiring unconventional dice were not eligible for patent protection. The Court relied primarily on…
Read MoreNo Fun! U.S. Patent Court Finds Claims to Dice Game Patent-Ineligible
Monday | January 14, 2019By James Watsoncourt rulingpatent claimsIn a decision captioned In re Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that claims to a dice game requiring unconventional dice were not eligible for patent protection. The Court relied primarily on…
Read MoreSubject-Matter Eligibility at the CAFC and PTAB: Q1 2018
Monday | May 7, 2018By Shane Skwarekpatent applicationpatent claimspatent eligibilitysubject-matter eligibilityAs part of my ongoing research into subject-matter eligibility, I have been monitoring the decisions issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Board of Patent Trials and Appeals of the U.S. Patent Office. Over…
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…
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