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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The Federal Circuit recently ruled in favor of the Patent Office asserting the rarely used doctrine of prosecution laches against serial patent applicant Gil Hyatt. Hyatt had brought an action in district court to order…
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