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Practical Points From The Supreme Court’s Alice Decision

| June 26, 2014

Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l

June 19, 2014

Summary: 

The Supreme Court’s Alice decision does not eliminate software patents as per se ineligible subject matter under 35 USC §101. The Court confirms the application of Mayo’s two step §101 analysis and provides some new considerations for addressing patent eligibility issues for computer-implemented inventions.  Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s admonition that the mere addition of “conventional” computer functionality to an abstract idea does not transform the claim into patent eligible subject matter conflates the §101 analysis with patentability issues under 35 USC §§102 and 103.


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PTAB Finally Considers “Processor” As Clearly Structure

| June 19, 2014

Ex Parte Cutlip

June 2, 2014

Panel: Lorin, Mohanty and Hoffman.

Summary:

After the debacle of three March 2013 PTAB decisions by a five judge PTAB panel relying on a strange American Heritage dictionary definition of “processor” as being software, this PTAB decision sets the record straight about a “processor” as clearly being structure.


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