Babak Nouri

is a Patent Agent with Polsinelli, where he prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications, particularly in the software, electrical, and mechanical arts. Additionally, Babak is well-versed in drafting and prosecution strategies for overcoming Alice-based obstacles in fields of software-implemented inventions, medical diagnostic methods and laboratory techniques and has extensive insight into the post-Alice subject matter eligibility landscape.

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A Realistic Perspective on post-Alice Software Patent Eligibility

Much of the havoc wrought in the software patent system by the landmark decision Alice v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014) stems from the unworkable two-part patent eligibility test based on vaguely defined and nebulous Abstract idea and significantly more constructs… In a patent eligibility landscape riddled with Alice-based rejections and invalidation it behooves patent practitioner and applicants alike to appreciate that not every innovation that achieves “a new, useful, and tangible result” is patentable… It is now more imperative than ever for practitioners to probe inventors with the right set of questions directed at identifying any distinctive technical features in the implementation, structure, configuration or arrangement of the software invention.