ARE Patent Law Alert:
USPTO Updates Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility as Federal Circuit Continues to Issue Decisions Finding Patents Eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued a Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. and TLI Communications LLC v. A.V. Automative, LLC; and (ii) here) as: Cautioning that courts “must be careful to avoid oversimplifying the claims” by looking at them generally and failing to account for the specific requirements of the claims;  Clarifying that […]

ARE Patent Law Alert: Supreme Court Affirms Use of Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in IPRs and Denies Appeals of Decisions to Institute IPRs

On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first Decision reviewing the structure of the Leahy-Smith American Invents Act ("AIA" or “Act”).   In the Decision, Cuozzo Speed Techs., LLC v. Lee, No. 15-446 (U.S. June 20, 2016), a unanimous Court joined Parts I and III of Justice Breyer’s Opinion, finding that the […]