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In Enfish v. Microsoft, the Federal Circuit Recognizes Limits on Alice as Applied to Computer Software

As previously reported, since the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS, many lower courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) have overzealously applied that decision to improperly invalidate patents on the grounds that they are not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  See, e.g., High Court Urged To Make Clear if Software is Patentable, Law360, April […]

Supreme Court 2013-2014 IP Case Review

In the past term, the Supreme Court issued a historically high number of patent and other intellectual property opinions. The Amicus Brief Committee filed briefs in four of these cases.1 Each of these briefs may have influenced the Court’s decisions, which have changed the prevailing rule of law in the area addressed. Below, we summarize […]