Ex Parte Desjardins: The USPTO makes AI Patents easier
USPTO Director Squires issued a precedential decision, further opening the door for patents on AI inventions. Here’s what this decision means. Prosecuting … Read more
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PERA: Congress attempts to fix Patent Eligibility
The courts have spent a decade telling inventors their ideas are “abstract.” Congress is finally tired of it too. If you have … Read more
Machine Learning is Generic
In Recentive Analytics vs Fox, the Federal Circuit determined that absent more, machine learning methods are now considered “generic.” Patentability is always … Read more
Contour vs GoPro: limiting “Alice” abstraction
SCOTUS’s “Alice” analysis encourages analyzing patent claims at a high level of abstraction. The Contour vs GoPro decision helps limit this. When … Read more
12(b)(6) motion to dismiss as abstract
In the recent Trinity vs. Covalent decision, the Federal Circuit gave patent infringers a new defensive weapon: a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss … Read more
Patentability of LLM and AI
LLM (Large Language Model) and AI (artificial intelligence) inventions are patentable in the US. But since AI is no longer new, their … Read more