ARE Patent Law Alert: In Bascom v AT&T, the Federal Circuit Continues to Find Computer-Implemented Claims to be Patent-Eligible under Step Two of the Alice Test

Just over a month after it confirmed in Enfish that not all computer-implemented patents are directed to an abstract idea under step one of the Alice test (as we previously reported here), the Federal Circuit continued the trend of finding computer-implemented claims to be patent-eligible in Bascom Global Internet Servs., Inc. v. AT&T Mobility LLC, […]

ARE Patent Law Alert: 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., Time to Correct Section 101 Patent-Eligibility Law in the U.S., LawyerIssue, April […]

IPWATCHDOG turns to Partner, Charles R. Macedo, for comments on Cuozzo Oral Arguments

 – IPWatchdog.com, May 4, 2016 On Monday, April 25, 2016, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee, the first case in which the Supreme Court will decide issues relating to inter partes review (IPR) proceedings conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States […]