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The Federal Circuit’s Effective Business-Method Ban Continues: AudienceScience v. Google
Yesterday, in Receivership Estate of AudienceScience Inc. v. Google, the CAFC affirmed yet another § 101 patent ineligibility blow to internet advertising patents. If you are a patent litigator or a corporate patent drafter, the court’s approach serves as a critical warning. Check out the full deep dive in the attached PDF!
Read MoreClaims broad enough to cover an inventive concept—but that do not require it—struck down as patent ineligible (another Electric Power Group case)
I am honored to be quoted in today’s IP360 article on the recent increase in declaratory judgment actions
Honored to be speaking at the All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property on October 8 about how to navigate the PTAB’s new landscape
New Functionality Struck Down as Abstract Idea in iCharts v. Tableau Software
In yesterday’s iCharts v. Tableau Software case (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding of patent ineligibility on a motion for judgment on the pleadings. This case is a great example of the Federal Circuit using “functionally drafted” as its own abstract-idea category, even when involving new functionality. This case involved three related…
Read MoreI am honored to be quoted in today’s IP360 article on the state of the PTAB.
USPTO-Fed. Circ. Split Complicates Machine Learning Patents
Here is my article as published today by IP360.
Read MoreFederal Circuit Reverses District Court’s Patent Ineligibility Finding in Ceiva Opco, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc.
Machine Learning Goes 0 for 3 on Patent Eligibility at the Federal Circuit in Dental Monitoring v. Align Tech.
Patentable Subject Matter Masterclass Webinar on August 6.
The next installment of my continuing webinar series on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (since 2014) will take place on August 6. Due to popular demand, this is the fourth webinar this year. This webinar will be a masterclass where we will cover the Federal Circuit caselaw’s nuances, inconsistencies, and outlier cases as well as the conflicts…
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