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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After a jury found infringement of claims of two patents, and awarded damages, the Federal Circuit held the patent claims invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in another case, whereupon the court in Prism Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Spe…
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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 Oil-Dri Corp. v. Nestlé Purina Petcare Co., No. 15-cv-1067 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 2, 2017), an Illinois district court held that 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) does not estop an accused infringer from challenging the validity of claims under…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has denied institution of CBM patent review, as a claimed trading turret system did not constitute a financial activity. Cloud9 Tech. LLC v. IPC Systems, Inc., CBM2017-00037 (Pat. 8, 189…
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A patent assignee was found to have standing to assert a patent assigned to it, even though the patent assignor retained both a conditional right to mandate a return assignment, and to receive 50% of any enforcement proceeds. In…
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The PTAB recently declined to institute CBM on US8189566 titled “Software based trading turret.” According to the patent specification, “[a] trading turret system is a specialized telephony switching system that…
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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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The Federal Circuit in Nobelbiz v. Global Connect recently reversed a district court for relying on the “plain and ordinary meaning” of claim terms rather than offering construction because the parties disputed the scope of th…
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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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