We have a few brief Section 101 updates starting, unsurprisingly, with … Roughly one month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the American Axle petition, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has.
Only about one-third of patent applicants invited to take part in a pilot program allowing them to postpone dealing with patent eligibility rejections have accepted the offer, which attorneys say reflects a sense that doing so often has limited benefits, and can present risks.
Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (at right) released a blog post on the USPTO's Director's Blog on.
Applicants for a new United States (US) nonprovisional application or National Stage Entry application may see a new form paragraph in their first Office Action between now and the end.
The current framework for determining patent subject matter eligibility flows from U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories (Mayo) and Alice Corp. v CLS Bank International (Alice).