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On January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama announced his goal of a nationwide “Cancer Moonshot,” with the ultimate goal of accelerating cancer research... Read More »
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The Supreme Court decision Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, 134 S. Ct... Read More »
As Q3 of 2016 ended last Friday, we looked at the quarterly numbers for patent litigation in district courts as well as Inter-Partes Review (IPR) challenges filed... Read More »
Although it is unclear whether PTAB decisions are given collateral estoppel effect in district court proceedings, PTAB decisions are at least persuasive authority... Read More »
As you will recall, in Prometheus v. Mayo, the Supreme Court held that a claim reciting a natural law had to have other non-conventional steps to pass muster under s. ... Read More »
Can boilerplate language describing possible variations to an invention ever impact validity of a patent? Many software patents include standard... Read More »
If the UN Secretary General and the members of his “High Level Panel on Access to Medicines” thought the State Department was bluffing when it warned... Read More »
Two recently issued decisions by federal courts highlight the uncertainty around claims to software-implemented inventions after the Supreme Court decision in Alice... Read More »
Consulting giant Accenture has rattled the cage of the fintech community by filing a patent for an “editable” blockchain that would allow a central... Read More »
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Pedram SameniInteresting! Thanks Bruce for sharing. I think the bigger question is how they are going to market this. The main reason for popularity of Bitcoin is because it is de-centralized like internet. Or are you suggesting that this can interoperate with Bitcoin blockchain protocol while it can be centralized?
Oct 5, 2016
IP CloseUpHi Pedram, I think some of patent filings are suggesting that it could be possible to have a blockchain within the blockchain, as it were, or a semi-opened network. That may undermine the inherent transparency that makes the network attractive in the first place, but in the end that type of “openness” may be more viable to some businesses.
Oct 6, 2016
On August 29, 2016, the Regents of the University of Minnesota (“the University”) filed suit against Gilead Sciences (“Gilead”) for patent... Read More »
Patent attorneys are often asked the question: “Is my idea patentable?” Often the idea is related to software or business methods. Well-known business... Read More »
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Curtis LeeMr. Kim: Do you think the drastic changes seen post-Alice with respect to software and business-method patents are an overall benefit to pure innovators and small business entities?
Oct 13, 2016
A number of new green patent infringement complaints were filed in July and August in the areas of advanced batteries, biofuels, LEDs, and electric motors... Read More »
During its August Patent Quality Chat, the USPTO discussed the recently launched Patent Prosecution Pilot Program (P3). The P3 program is a hybrid of the After-final... Read More »
Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings are limited to prior art challenges for printed prior art. Although prior art typically includes drawings that illustrate... Read More »
UCB sued Yeda for a DJ of non-infringement of US Patent No. 6,090,923 [Appeal No. 2015-1957 (Fed. Cir. September 8, 2016)].The main claim in question was directed to... Read More »
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decides petitions to institute post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews (IPRs). PTAB institution... Read More »
This week, Patexia Data Science team analyzed nearly four years of data to find the 25 most active IPR petitioners. From September 2012 through June 2016, more than... Read More »
In the fourth of a recent series of appellate decisions establishing patent-eligibility of patent claims post-Alice, in McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games... Read More »
TDE Petroleum Data Solutions, Inc. v AKM Enterprise, Inc. is one of several recent Federal Circuit cases concluding that pure data processing claims—that is... Read More »
Alice is clear that inventions drawn to automating well-known concepts are not patent-eligible. However, this area of the law becomes a bit murky when the automated... Read More »