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Simio, LLC v. FlexSim Software Products, Inc.: Important Precedent for § 101 Patent-Eligibility of Software (or Lack Thereof)

by Charles Bieneman on January 10th, 2021
The Federal Circuit ended 2020 with a precedential opinion holding that patent claims directed to providing a graphical user interface for controlling a software object’s behavior were patent-ineligible under the Alice/Mayo test… Read More

Mass Spectrometry Method Not Patent Eligible in Ex Parte Appeal

by Christopher Francis on July 11th, 2017
The PTAB held that the claims in Ex parte Quimby, Appeal No. 2016-004681 (June 2, 2017) were directed toward unpatentable subject matter.  Of particular interest given the claim language, the Appellant was unsuccessful with argum… Read More

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