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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…
Read More“[A] rich and elaborate corpus of Section 101 precedent” is how the Federal Circuit describes its patentable subject matter caselaw in Etison, LLC v. HighLevel, Inc.
Honored to be quoted in today’s IAM article on the PTAB’s new precedential decision, Light & Wonder v. Evolution Malta
https://www.iam-media.com/article/squires-opens-new-ptab-escape-route-patent-owners-in-parallel-litigation
Read MorePatent Eligibility of Machine Learning
I’m providing some of my slides from my webinar yesterday on the patent eligibility of machine learning. These slides include an updated list of abstract ideas found by the Federal Circuit as well as the slides for the Electric Power Group (EPG) line of cases. The EPG section includes Recentive, RPI, and Ollnova, which is…
Read MoreHonored to be quoted in today’s IAM article about Ollnova
https://www.iam-media.com/article/inform-jury-of-abstract-idea-step-two-of-alice-says-us-federal-circuit
Read MoreArendi S.A.R.L. v. Oath Holdings Inc., et al.: Another Victim of Electric Power Group
In Arendi v. Oath Holdings (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit today struck down four patents using Electric Power Group (EPG). Interestingly, the district court had found three patents (the ‘356, ‘854, and ‘993 patents) invalid for reciting patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and one patent (the ‘843 patent) as satisfying § 101.…
Read MoreOllnova Technologies Ltd. v. ecobee Technologies ULC: Claims Found Patent Eligible Over Electric Power Group
Yet Another Example of Electric Power Group (EPG) Killing a Patent
In today’s AGI SureTrack LLC, v. Farmers Edge Inc. case, the Federal Circuit used EPG to once again strike down a patent for failing to recite patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The technology involves collecting farming operation data using devices attached to farming equipment while the equipment is operating and then processing…
Read MoreWebinar on June 11, 2026: The Subject Matter Eligibility of Machine-Learning Inventions
The next installment of my continuing patentable-subject-matter webinars (since 2014) will take place on June 11, 2026. It will be devoted to the subject matter eligibility of machine-learning (ML) inventions. Interestingly, ML has met nothing but roadblocks at the Federal Circuit. ML patents have been struck down twice by the Federal Circuit: first, in Recentive,…
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