Posts Tagged ‘patentable subject matter’
Linden v. ResMed: Not Surprising That This Remote Telehealth Patent Is Struck Down as Patent Ineligible
Piranha Media Distribution v. Hulu: Is There Any Limit to How Much the Federal Circuit Will Summarize a Claim to Strike It Down as Patent Ineligible?
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)
“[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.
Patent 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 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In Arendi v. Oath Holdings (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit today struck down four patents using Electric Power Group (EPG).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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