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September, 19th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, computer, litigation, patent, software, USPTO

By Andrew P. Siuta In the recent holding in Visual Memory LLC v. NVIDIA Corporation (Fed. Cir. August 15, 2017) the Federal Circuit again addressed the issue of whether a new computer memory system was [Read More…]

September, 11th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, CAFC, computer, litigation, patent, PTAB, software

By Stephen Ball At issue was a Motion for Summary Judgment that certain claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,960,032 (the “‘032 patent”) and RE41,490 (the “‘490 patent”) are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Intellectual [Read More…]

September, 8th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: computer, IPR, litigation, patent, PTAB, software, USPTO

By Benjamin N. Luehrs On August 29, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or “the Board”) issued a pair of decisions denying institution of inter partes review (IPR) because the petitioner failed to [Read More…]

August, 24th, 2017

Categories: Blog, News Tags: litigation, software, trademark, whipgroup

WHIPgroup has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit on behalf of its client Executive Data Systems, Inc. (“EDS”) in the Southern District of New York, Case No. 1:17-cv-6339 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed August 21, 2017). EDS sells legal [Read More…]

August, 1st, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, computer, litigation, patent, software, USPTO

By Natasha Rodriguez With recent court decisions such as Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International and subsequent cases regarding patentable subject matter, many practitioners are left questioning where the line is drawn for patent ineligible [Read More…]

July, 18th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, computer, patent, PTAB, software, USPTO

By Joseph V. Hajjar The Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International unleashed a shockwave on the threshold for patent-eligible subject matter. In the technology center for computer software alone, the percentage of [Read More…]

June, 21st, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, computer, litigation, patent, software, USPTO

By Andrew P. Siuta In Cardionet, LLC, v. Infobionic, Inc. the District Court of Massachusetts held that a claim for optimizing the transmission of patient data constituted patent eligible subject matter. The patent disclosed and [Read More…]

June, 13th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: computer, litigation, patent, precedential, software

By Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. In denying a motion for partial summary judgment that no reasonable jury could find “sales within the United States” based on Defendant’s products that are “ordered, manufactured, shipped, billed, and [Read More…]

May, 19th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, CAFC, litigation, patent, PTAB, software

By Stephen Ball For practitioners who specialize in computer-implemented inventions, the last several years have been challenging while the USPTO has struggled to consistently apply precedent defining the scope of patentable subject matter. Internet-based technologies [Read More…]