The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a determination by the US International Trade Commission regarding subject matter ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Court ...

The patent world tends to think that the Supreme Court’s framework in Alice 1 is a template for determining the eligibility of software and business method inventions 2. Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, ...

Not too long after the Supreme Court decided Mayo v. Prometheus, I wrote an article suggesting, based on some of the history that followed Funk Brothers, that patents on ordinary industrial processes ...

The Federal Circuit has reversed a controversial ITC decision that had invalidated composition of matter claims as abstract ideas. US Synthetic Corp. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 23-1217 (Fed. Cir. Feb.

“The USAA case provides a perfect vehicle because it squarely addresses the issue of what is meant by an abstract idea. It does not, like other cases presented to the Court in recent years, focus on ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejection of a patent claim, alleging the claim is not significantly more than an abstract idea under 35 USC §101, is a frequent and often frustrating ...