Posts Tagged: Alice v. CLS Bank
Portal Communications Alleges Apple’s Siri Willfully Infringes on Natural Language Processing Patents
Portal Communications filed a suit for patent infringement against Cupertino, CA-based consumer tech giant Apple Inc. At issue in the case, which was filed in the Eastern …
Law Professors Urge CAFC to Uphold Cleveland Clinic Diagnostic Method Patents
A group of six patent law professors filed an amicus brief with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Cleveland Clinic v. True Health Diagnostics. …
China Outpaces U.S. in AI Startup Funding, Aims for AI Dominance
In 2017, 48 percent of the world’s entire equity funding for AI startups was located in China. The U.S. was in second-place, lagging behind at 38 percent of …
Blackbird Technologies to Appeal Ineligibility Ruling in Cloudflare Patent Infringement Litigation
“One thing that I find curious is that Cloudflare claims to have 150 patent assets on the same type of technology,” Verlander said. Such assets include U.S. …
Is there a Light at the End of the Alice Tunnel?
Maybe I’m being too optimistic. But in a pair of decisions issued within a week of each other, Berkheimer v. HP and Aatrix Software v. Green …
Federal Circuit Upholds Thales Motion Tracking Patent Asserted against U.S. Government for Second Time
The recent Federal Circuit decision in Elbit Systems of America, LLC v. Thales Visionix, Inc. affirmed a final written decision issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal …
Unlocking the Value in Software Patents
Alice has had an impact on software patents, but they still hold significant value. If your portfolio includes software patents, there will be times when you want …
Apple Files Patent for Recognizing Whispered Voice Commands
One digital assistant technology developed by Apple allowing Siri to respond to whispered voice commands is disclosed by U.S. Patent Application 20170358301, titled Digital Assistant Providing Whispered …
Patent-Ineligibility of Medical Diagnostics, Life Sciences Discoveries Arrests U.S. Progress
In a research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), evidence emerged that a higher expression of the GIRK1 protein in malignant tissue samples was linked …
Open Letter Exaggerates the Benefits of Recent Patent Reforms
HTIA’s letter argues that venture capital funding and startup activity have grown in recent years, further proof of their view that the federal government has properly …
Changes in Patent Language to Ensure Eligibility Under Alice
When a rule becomes a target, it ceases to be a good rule. In the three years since the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice, there …
When all else fails, consult the statute!
Specifically, the petition presents the question: is patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, which Congress did not codify in 35 U.S.C. § 282(b), not a cognizable defense …
Surviving Alice: Sufficient Inventive Concept Must be in Claim, Not Specification
In Two-Way Media Ltd v. Comcast Cable Communs., LLC, (Opinion for the court, Reyna, J.), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court decision finding four patents owned …
Smart Systems decision a sad reminder of deleterious state of U.S. patent eligibility law
The Federal Circuit evidences a great deal of myopia to declare that these patents are not directed to a technological advance, even if they can string together …
Federal Circuit says computer memory system claims patent eligible, not abstract
The majority determined that the patent claims drawn to a computer memory system did not cover an abstract idea and, therefore, the second step of the Alice …
