Tag: abstraction
“The Black Box is Never Described”: CLS Tries to Teach the Federal Circuit the Difference Between Methods Claims and Systems Claims, and about Abstract Ideas
For those who are interested, a reader has shared a transcript of the oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice en banc at the Federal Circuit. As we have written, a lot is at stake in this case as it tak...
Preview of Today’s USPTO Software Patent Roundtable in Palo Alto
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding the first of its bicoastal roundtables on software patent quality today at 12 pm EST (9 am PST) in Palo Alto, CA. The second will be ...
Patents in the News
Facebook sued over 'like' button (BBC News)
Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the "like" button and other features of the social network... It is being sued by a patent-holding company ...
Previewing CLS Bank v. Alice
Tomorrow, February 8, the full Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”), who receives nearly all patent appeals, will hear oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. This cas...
CCIA Filed an Amicus Brief Friday in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp
On Friday, CCIA, which operates Patent Progress, filed an amicus brief in the en banc rehearing of CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. CCIA’s brief focu...
The Continued Challenge Posed by Abstract Patents
What is the state of the patent system? In 2009, scholars framed the question as whether it was failing. In 2011, the question was whether it was in crisis. Now, Wired Magazine’s “Patent F...