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fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
5 months agoIntellectual property law
PERA Remains a Serious Threat to Efforts Against Bad Patents
The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act would make low-quality software patents easier to obtain and harder to challenge, enabling patent trolls and harming small businesses.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
8 months agoIntellectual property law
Coping with Alice: Strategies for Winning on Patent Eligibility
The 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidelines have improved patent eligibility case processing at the USPTO, but the Federal Circuit has not adopted them.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
5 days agoCAFC Reverses District Court's Finding of Eligibility for Columbia Antivirus Software Claims
The Federal Circuit reversed Columbia's patent infringement verdict, finding claims for virus protection software directed to abstract ideas ineligible under patent law, lacking meaningful technical improvement.
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fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month agoUK Supreme Court Issues Milestone Judgment for AI and Software Patentability
The UK Supreme Court disapproved the Aerotel approach, reshaping the legal test for AI and software patent eligibility and affecting future software patent practice.
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fromPatently-O
1 month agoPre-Alice Patents Keep Falling: Three Section 101 Decisions from the Federal Circuit
Pre-2010 computer-related patents often lack the concrete technical improvements now required for Section 101 eligibility, resulting in Federal Circuit invalidations.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
3 months agoCAFC Affirms Non-Infringement Finding for Shopify, Scrapping $40 Million Jury Verdict
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday affirmed a district court's summary judgment of non-infringement and judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) in Shopify Inc. v. Express Mobile, Inc., confirming the rejection of a $40 million jury verdict against Shopify. Shopify filed a declaratory judgment action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, seeking a declaration of noninfringement of the claims
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fromPatently-O
6 months agoFederal Circuit Delivers Major Reversal on "Software Per Se" Rejections in In re McFadden
In a significant victory for software patent applicants, the Federal Circuit reversed the a PTAB rejection of computer system claims in In re McFadden, 2024-2107 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 5, 2025). One problem with the decision is its non-precedential status - even though it clearly breaks new ground. The case offers another example of the potential power of 112(f) means-plus-function claims.
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