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IP Watch Turns To Partner Charles Macedo For Comments from the Corporate IP Counsel Meeting

A wide variety of metrics of valuation were listed, taking both a qualitative or quantitative approach. Examples listed were: how often the patent is cited; who cited; length of claims; strength/validity of claims; priority date; geographic coverage; pendency of application; competing technologies; development stage; right to produce/sell/use; scope of areas of application; size of market; […]

ARE Patent Law Alert: Supreme Court Finds Alice’s Computer Implemented Claims To Be Patent-Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C § 101 As An Abstract Idea

On June 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that the claims of a computer-implemented invention drawn to an abstract idea are not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, et al., No. 13-298, 573 U.S. __ (June 19, 2014). Previously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]