USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) rejection of a patent claim, alleging the claim is not significantly more than an abstract idea under 35 USC §101, is a frequent and often frustrating ...

Before Dyk, Reyna, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Summary: When assessing patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, combining two abstract ...

Earlier today I was flipping through my RSS feed of geoscience journals and clicked on the title of particularly juicy-looking paper. To my delight, a beautiful illustration was embedded below the ...

RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., (Fed. Cir. Apr. 28, 2017) (Before Lourie, Reyna, and Stoll, J.) (Opinion for the court, Reyna, J.) The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision that ...

“[I]t seems clear that the Supreme Court did not intend to categorically prohibit patenting of everything which can be characterized as an abstract idea…” This is part two of a three-part article ...

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Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it “on a computer” or “over the Internet” doesn’t mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus brief filed on Friday by Google, Facebook and ...

An abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, potentially making it more difficult to patent some software in the future. The ...

A group of top tech companies, including Google and Facebook, has intervened in the latest precedent-setting case around software patentability in the US. The companies, which also include Red Hat, ...

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