Patent claims directed to “a power headroom report” recited the “patent-ineligible concept of calculating and reporting the missing power of a network device,” according to the Eastern District of Texas’ Magistrate Judge…
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Want an example of a business method patent claim that survived the Alice patent-eligibility test? Today’s second installment in our series summarizing Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) patent-eligibility decisions in ex pa…
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Patent claims directed to displaying digital advertisements have survived a rule 12(b)(6) motion alleging patent-ineligibility under 35 USC § 101 and Alice Corp. Pty Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l., although the court did state that th…
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Achieving success in overcoming rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test is no different than achieving success in other areas of law – or life – draw lessons from those that have gone succe…
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Two patents directed to customer service centers survived a patent-eligibility challenge under 35 USC § 101, and four did not, in 24/7 Customer Inc. v. LivePerson, Inc., Case No.15-cv-02897-JST (N.D. Cal. May 25, 2017). The court…
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Patent claims directed to encryption systems and methods, including allowing authorized users to access encrypted data, past patent-eligibility muster under 35 USC § 101, according to a court in the Eastern District of Virginia.…
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How is the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) addressing patent-eligibility rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in ex parte appeals? What arguments work, and what arguments fail, when you are trying to persuade the PTA…
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Patent claims directed to allowing “Internet users to communicate with members of a group” via “designated webpages” are not patent-eligible under 35 USC § 101, said the court in EveryMD.com LLC v. Facebook Inc., No. CV 1…
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Addressing a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, a court has held that some patent claims directed to monitoring and analyzing patient data cannot be deemed patent-ineligible at the pleading stage, while other asse…
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The Federal Circuit has found patent-ineligible claims of five “patents [that] are generally directed to allowing ‘any person or organization to easily publish a message on the Internet.’” EasyWeb Innovations LLC v. Twitte…
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