subject-matter eligibility Archives

Automating Animation: Patentable; Automating Captions: Hold On

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a decision affirming that patent claims to automating the process of making closed captions for audio-visual media are ineligible for patent protection. In Enco Sys. v. Davincia, the Court…

Customedia Techs. Patent for Storing Ads Invalidated

Patent claims to storing ad data based on user preferences locally at a user’s video player were confirmed invalid in Customedia Techs., LLC v. Dish Network Corp., No. 2018-2239, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 7005 (Fed. Cir. March 6, 2020). To…

Software Patent Claims Saved by Problem-Solution Approach

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision that software patent claims involving techniques for varying check data to verify data transmissions were ineligible for patent protection in KPN v. Gemalto, No. 2018-1863, 2019…

New Federal Circuit Opinion May Limit Impact of Berkheimer Decision

In 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…

Subject-Matter Eligibility at the CAFC and PTAB: Q1 2018

As 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…

Watch Out for Claim Preambles in Light of Federal Circuit Decision

On November 1, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of a motion for judgment on the pleadings on subject-matter ineligibility grounds in Two-Way Media v. Comcast Cable Communs., No. 2016-2532, 2017…

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Automating Animation: Patentable; Automating Captions: Hold On

Customedia Techs. Patent for Storing Ads Invalidated

Software Patent Claims Saved by Problem-Solution Approach

New Federal Circuit Opinion May Limit Impact of Berkheimer Decision

Subject-Matter Eligibility at the CAFC and PTAB: Q1 2018

Watch Out for Claim Preambles in Light of Federal Circuit Decision

Technical Solutions to Computer-Based Problems Give Patent Applicants Success at the PTAB

Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Motions to Dismiss on § 101 Grounds

Solo Inventor’s Claims to Methods of Rendering 3D Graphics Invalidated as Abstract Idea

When Can Conventional Portions of a Patent Claim Be Ignored?

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