Posts Tagged: Paul Cole
USPTO Patent Eligibility Guidelines: A Topsy Turvy Approach for Natural Products
The view of the USPTO now is that a claim to purified amazonic acid is not patent-eligible because there is no structural difference between the purified acid …
CLS Bank v Alice – Federal Circuit Orders en banc Rehearing
It is arguable that neither view is beyond criticism and that any emergent legal test as to patent-eligibility demands further development. There is much to commend the …
Broad Claims to Signals & Computer Program Products in EPO
The good news is that signal claims and broad claims to computer program products are obtainable in Europe. However, such claims are only grantable if the necessary …
UK Perspective: Bancorp Services v. Sun Life Assurance
The EPO applies what might be referred to as a “subtraction” test for claims containing a mixture of patent-eligible and patent-ineligible features, those features that are patent-ineligible …
CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation Reveals “A House Divided”
The decision of the Supreme Court in Prometheus has been predicted to have implications for business method patentability, but the decision in what will surely become known …
Prometheus v. Mayo – The Wrong Rat?
A decision with the right outcome but for the wrong reasons can confound jurisprudence nearly as much as a decision that is entirely wrong. It is difficult …
