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Boston Scientific to Acquire Blood Clot Removal Tech Company Devoro Medical
Boston Scientific Corp. has agreed to acquire Devoro Medical Inc. in a deal expected to close this year. Boston Scientific previously held a 16% equity stake...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases
CASE OF THE WEEK Omega Patents, LLC, v. CalAmp Corp., Appeal Nos. 2020-1793, -1794, (Fed. Cir. Sept. 14, 2021) In its only precedential patent case this week, the Federal Circuit...
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ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. SHOPPERSCHOICE.COM, LLC
Before Prost, Dyk, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the... Read More »
UNILOC USA, INC. v. LG ELECTRONICS USA, INC.
Before Moore, Reyna, and Taranto. On appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California.
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IN RE: CHRISTOPHER JOHN RUDY
Before Prost, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The Patent and Trademark... Read More »
AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC. v. NEAPCO HOLDINGS LLC
Before Dyk, Moore, Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of... Read More »
SOLUTRAN, INC v. ELAVON, INC.
Before Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
Summary: Method... Read More »
Written by: Bridget A. Smith & Philip M. Nelson
On May 22, 2019, a bipartisan committee of the U.S. Senate and House released a draft bill on § 101... Read More »
Before Wallach, Clevenger, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: Claims directed to a... Read More »
A little over a year ago, the patent-eligibility of software inventions was very bleak. Examiners maintained difficult Alice-based rejections (rejecting the claims as ... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before Prost, Moore, and Wallach. Appeal from the Northern District of Florida.
Summary: When a... Read More »
On January 4th, the USPTO announced revised guidance for subject matter eligibility (Section 101 Revised Guidance) and stated it would take effect when published on... Read More »
Medical devices are increasingly incorporating software and other computer elements, but software and computer patents are in the middle of a multi-year battle... Read More »
Patent eligibility challenges under 35 U.S.C. §101 have been effective tools for defendants to obtain early dismissal of a case without extensive fact finding... Read More »
For both patent Applicants and Patent Office Examiners, the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International decision has created ongoing uncertainty... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before O’Malley, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California... Read More »
Machine learning is one of the fastest growing categories of granted patents[1]. However, there do not appear to be many examples of patent infringement... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before Prost, Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. On petition for rehearing en... Read More »
Written by: Scott Forbes and Michael L. Fuller
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued new guidance to patent examiners in light of the Federal... Read More »
In Core Wireless Licensin g S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that user interface claims are patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101... Read More »
Written by Damien Howard and Ronald J. Schoenbaum
The Federal Circuit recently decided a patent subject-matter eligibility case relating to computer memory in... Read More »
Written by Jeremy Anapol and Michael L. Fuller
Courts increasingly rely on analogies to show that claims are not directed to patent-eligible subject matter under... Read More »
