Patent claims to “providing global biometric identification services to a plurality of remote parties” are directed to an unpatentable abstract idea under 35 U.S.C. § 101, said the court in IQS US Inc. v. Calsoft Labs, Inc.,…
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A split Federal Circuit panel held that claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,953,740 are directed to “an improvement to computer memory systems” and “not to the abstract idea of categorical data storage.” Visual Memory, LLC v. NV…
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Patent claims directed to managing teleconferences over hybrid networks, i.e., PSTN and Internet, recited an unconventional combination of elements, said the court in Meetrix, IP, LLC v. Citrix Systems, Inc., No. 1-16-CV-1033-LY (…
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In Honeywell International Inc. v. Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. De C.V., No. 2016-1996, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 13909 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 1, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB decision, holding that an obviousness rej…
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Having brought a lawsuit for a patent who claims are found invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and the Alice abstract idea test, is the plaintiff’s conduct “objectively baseless” justifying an award of attorney fees under 35 U.S…
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Claims of a patent directed to “management of bandwidth allocation in a network server” were not directed to an abstract idea, and not invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, held Magistrate Judge Payne in a report and recommendation…
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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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