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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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https://www.iam-media.com/article/squires-opens-new-ptab-escape-route-patent-owners-in-parallel-litigation
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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…
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https://www.iam-media.com/article/inform-jury-of-abstract-idea-step-two-of-alice-says-us-federal-circuit
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In Arendi v. Oath Holdings (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit today struck down four patents using Electric Power Group (EPG).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.…
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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…
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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,…