Federal Circuit Kills PersonalWeb’s ‘Content-Based Identifier’ Patent Claims...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today affirmed a decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granting judgment on the pleadings to...
View ArticleNew York Court Finds Playlist Patent Ineligible as Abstract
On January 24, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held EscapeX IP LLC’s U.S. Patent No. 9,009,113 patent ineligible as being directed to an abstract idea. The patent covers a...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Says People.ai Patent Claims Cover Long-Prevalent...
On April 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a ruling in People.ai, Inc. v. Clari Inc. affirming a judgment on the pleadings that nixed patent infringement claims...
View ArticleRevised Patent Eligibility Guidance Effectively Defines What is an Abstract Idea
In essence, by narrowly identifying certain subject matter groups as being those that properly qualify for characterization as abstract ideas the USPTO is effectively defining what is and what is not...
View ArticleHow the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Help Shape the Examination of Artificial...
It is safe to say that Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are hot topics and, as with any rapidly growing technological area on the industry side, there is also a rapidly growing...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Cellspin Ruling Provides Important Clarifications on Aatrix...
On June 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit, Inc. (2018-1817, 2018-1819 to 1826), reversing a district court’s grant of various Rule...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Nixes Claims for Garage Door Opener as Abstract Under Alice
A Federal Circuit panel comprising Judges Lourie, O’Malley and Chen issued a precedential opinion yesterday, August 21, in part reversing a district court’s finding that certain claims of Chamberlain...
View ArticleNote to the Federal Circuit: Spewing Illogical Nonsense Does Not Make It True
The Federal Circuit recently reversed the District of Minnesota’s denial of summary judgment in Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., Nos. 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 22516 (Fed. Cir. July 30, 2019) (Before Chen,...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Is Hesitant to Construe Patent Claims in the First Instance...
The Federal Circuit recently vacated and remanded a decision by the Northern District of California granting a motion on the pleadings that claims related to “toolbars” on computers were ineligible...
View ArticleChamberlain Petitions Full Federal Circuit to Correct Appellate Overstep on...
As anticipated, the Chamberlain Group, Inc., in a corrected petition for rehearing filed today, asked an en banc panel of the Federal Circuit to reconsider its August 21 precedential decision, which in...
View ArticleUniloc Patent Claims Vindicated Under Alice at Federal Circuit
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in an opinion authored by Judge Moore, reversed and remanded a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,...
View ArticleCAFC Finds Claim for Delivery Notification System Abstract as Directed to a...
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a decision of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Electronic Communication Technologies, LLC....
View ArticleDistrict Court Finds Google Patent Ineligible Under Alice
On November 2, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc., issued an order granting Sonos’s motion to dismiss a cause of action for...
View ArticleCybergenetics Appeals Ohio Federal Judge Ruling that Alice Kills DNA Analysis...
On October 13, 2020, Cybergenetics filed a notice of appeal to the Federal Circuit from a decision of the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, that held the patent claims asserted by...
View ArticleCAFC Affirms PTAB Rejection of Stanford Haplotype Phasing Patent Claims Under...
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 rejected claims from Leland Stanford Junior...
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