In Traxcell Techs., LLC v. Sprint Communs. Co. LP, Nos. 2020-1852, 2020-1854 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 12, 2021), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court that granted summary judgement in favor Defendants, Sprint and Verizon…
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In 1995, Amazon recently sold its first book and eBay was just getting off the ground. At that point, the idea of e-commerce marketplaces was in its infancy. It was unlikely that Jeff Bezos contemplated that I might…
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When an accused infringer admits to knowledge of potential infringement, but the commercial embodiment of the patent fails to comply with the marking statute, 35 U.S.C. § 287, what date should be used for calculating da…
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In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit has held patent-ineligible, under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the Alice/Mayo test, claims of three patents directed to “data-processing systems that assign each data item a sub…
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Here is a case that both demonstrates the dysfunction of U.S. patent law with respect to eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and offers lessons for practitioners wishing to buttress the patent-eligibility o…
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