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 the Patent…
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In Speedtrack, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (June 3, 2021), the Federal Circuit affirmed not only the district court’s findings relating to patent infringement, but also the importance of prosecution history when interpreting the c…
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Patent claims directed to backing up data to a client’s computers where the data has been outsourced for processing via the Internet failed the patent-eligibility test under the Alice/Mayo test and 35 U.S.C. § 101. WhitServe L…
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In Raytheon Tech. Corp. v. General Electric Co., the Federal Circuit recently overturned the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s ruling that Raytheon’s claims to a gas turbine engine (in USPN 9,695,751) were unpatentable a…
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In a long anticipated decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that Google’s copying of code of an Application Programming Interface (API) developed by Oracle is a fair use of that code. The Court held, 6-2, tha…
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