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Keith Vick

is a patent attorney at Ollila Law Group with over a decade of patent prosecution experience in various technologies, including software and electronics. Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Keith worked as an engineer for Applied Materials, Intel, and Agilent Technologies. Keith has a J.D. from Fordham Law, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Recent Articles by Keith Vick

Using Alice’s Approach to Patent-Eligibility to Draft Patent Claims

The Federal Circuit has been criticized for creating categories of abstract ideas when applying Alice v. CLS’s two-prong framework and for refusing to define the contours of an abstract idea. Naturally, this causes uncertainty for those drafting patent claims. A typical view is that claims can be drafted by analogizing to them to the decisions. However, analogical reasoning has limited utility where the Federal Circuit continues to define new abstract ideas. This article argues that Alice’s definition of a patent-eligible claim is consistent with the Federal Circuit’s decisions and that this definition can be a useful analytical tool while drafting claims.