Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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It has been a busy week at the Circuit. In Comcast v. Sprint the Circuit affirms a $7.5 million ‎judgment that includes prejudgment interest running from the date of the first-to-issue patent ‎instead of apportioning the interest based on the issue…
Written by Damien Howard and Michael L. Fuller Is a patent directed to electronic communications between computing devices patent eligible? As with many legal questions, the answer to this question is not black and white. In the recent Fitbit, Inc. v.…
On Wed., February 8, 2017, IPO released the report of its legislation task force. Unlike the hundreds of academic analyses of the legislative history of s. 101 – and this report includes another – the Task Force took the further necessary and…
Inventions directed to “pure software” have arguably had the most difficult time surviving Alice challenges. Software is often characterized as an “abstract idea” without more, and the inventive step requirement in Alice seems…
