ARE Patent Law Alert:
Federal Circuit Orders En Banc Review of Alice Corp. Case Regarding Patent Eligibility

As discussed in reported, in Alice, the patent claims at issue related to a computerized trading platform for exchanging obligations in which a trusted third party settled obligations between a first and second party so as to eliminate “settlement risk” (i.e., the risk that only one party’s obligation will be paid). This past summer, a […]

ARE Domain Name Alert

On June 13, the nonprofit corporation that runs the Internet made public a list of over 1,900 new generic top-level domain ("gTLD") names that may be approved for actual use early in 2013. The list can be found at ICANN’s web site at: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en. These include company specific domains (for example, .amazon, .macys, and .nike); […]