Patent claims directed to automating collection and interpretation of sensor data are often suspect under the two-part Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Not so often, however, do judges do as the court…
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Patent claims directed to “alert and notification” are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the two-part Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test, said a Delaware magistrate judge, recommending granting a Rule 12(b)(6) motion t…
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During a Markman patent claim construction proceeding, the Western District of Texas ruled multiple claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,284,203 invalid for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112 because the claims “improperly combine sys…
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Despite a refiled case and a subsequent dismissal for ineligible subject matter, plaintiff Data Scape escaped paying attorney fees to defendant Spotify in a recent decision from the Central District of California. Data Scape Lim…
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The Federal Circuit recently upheld a summary judgment of noninfringement based on an undisputed claim construction in Plastic Omnium v. Donghee America.
The dispute centered on manufacturing plastic fuel tanks by blow molding. Pl…
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Claims directed to a virtual smartphone that could be displayed on a vehicle touchscreen are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the two-part Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test, held the court in KCG Technologies, LLC v…
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Patent claims directed to [a] “system for monitoring of location of items” have survived a Rule 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings arguing that the claims were patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the two-part…
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The Central District of California upheld validity under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of several patents related to encryption and decryption of streaming video content, noting that the factual allegations in the complaint sufficed to survive…
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Patent claims directed to distributing streaming video data in a first formal and then converting the data to a second format are not patent-eligible, said the court in Adaptive Streaming Inc. v. Netflix, Inc., Case No. SA CV 19-1…
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Claims of four patents directed to routing VoIP calls fail the two-part Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test, said the court in Voip-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., Case No. 18-CV-06216-LHK, (N.D. Cal. Nov. 1, 2019) (Judge Lucy Koh),…
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