Posts Tagged: patentable subject matter
High Court is Poised to Un-Muddy the Section 101 Waters Nearly Seven Years After Alice
Could the United States Supreme Court once again weigh in on Section 101 subject-matter eligibility? With the Court having asked for the views of the Solicitor General yesterday, …
CAFC Again Affirms PTAB Rejection of Stanford Patent Application Claims Under Alice
Two weeks after affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) decision to reject Leland Stanford Junior University’s (Stanford) claims drawn to abstract mathematical …
Tillis and Cotton Urge Hirshfeld to Adopt Pilot Program to Address ‘Inherently Vague and Subjective’ Eligibility Analyses
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter on Monday to the acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Drew …
CAFC Affirms PTAB Rejection of Stanford Haplotype Phasing Patent Claims Under Alice
On March 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to hold the …
Bipartisan Group of Senators Asks Hirshfeld to Gather Info on Eligibility Law by Next Year
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE) sent a letter on Friday to the Acting Director of the United States …
Balancing Innovation and Competition: Thomas Jefferson’s View of Obviousness for Mechanical Inventions
You cannot get a patent for an invention if it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time. This …
Professors Tell SCOTUS to Correct the CAFC’s ‘Profound Misunderstanding’ in American Axle Case
In one of six amicus briefs filed this week in American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings, LLC—the closely-watched Section 101 patent eligibility case involving driveshaft automotive technology—…
How to Safeguard AI Technology: Patents versus Trade Secrets
A common refrain is that an invention is only as valuable as the patent that protects it. But what happens when you cannot secure the patent? This …
CAFC Affirms Section 112 Invalidation/ Non-Infringement in Synchronoss v. Dropbox Dispute
On February 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court’s conclusion of invalidity under Section 112 and/or non-infringement in …
USIJ to Supremes: Set Boundaries on 101 Jurisprudence to Save U.S. Innovation
The Alliance of U.S. Startups & Inventors for Jobs has filed an amicus brief supporting American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.’s petition for certiorari with the U.S. …
Federal Circuit Reiterates It Will Not Be Bound by USPTO Eligibility Guidance
Earlier today, in cxLoyalty, Inc. v. Maritz Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed-in-part, reversed-in-part and dismissed-in-part a decision of …
The Day One Project Examined: USPTO Transition Proposals Advocate Questionable PTAB, Section 101 Policies
Recently, the Day One Project, an initiative of the Federation of American Scientists, released a transition document drafted by a collection of veteran policymakers discussing a range …
Alice in 2020: Slashing Software Patents and Searching for Functional Language at the Federal Circuit (Part II)
In Part I of this article, I explained that the CAFC invalidated almost every software patent on appeal for eligibility in 2020 and recapped the first 13 such cases …
The Patent System is ‘Desperate’: American Axle Implores High Court to Take Up Eligibility Fight
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on December 28, 2020, asking it to review the Federal Circuit’s July 31, 2020 modified …
Illinois District Court Finds Appliance Controller Patents Ineligible under Alice/Mayo
On November 6, the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, granted a motion to dismiss an infringement suit on the grounds that the patents in suit were directed …
