On the Nature of Prior Art in the 35 U S C § 101 Inquiry | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
296-1. Federal Circuit Finds Pre-Invention Ideas Not Covered Under Employment IP Assignment Agreement - The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Decisions provide further guidance regarding the subject matter eligibility of computer-based diagnostic methods
Decision highlights the need for applicants to focus on additional improvements to technology when drafting and prosecuting applications directed to computer-implemented diagnostics methods.
On March 25, 2021, the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that maintained the rejection of diagnostic method claims in a patent application owned by The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford University (Stanford), providing further guidance regarding the subject matter eligibility of computer-based diagnostic methods.[1] In this case, the Court found that the claims were ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for being “drawn to abstract mathematical calculations and statistical modeling, and similar subject matter.”[2] This decision follows a recent decision issued by the Court last month regarding a related Stanford patent application directed to
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A computer does just three things: receives information in the form of bits, transforms this information, and provides output based on the information as transformed. The receiving may take place by way of various types of input modalities, such as keyboards, touchscreens, mice, audio microphones, video cameras, network interfaces, sensors, and so on. The transforming may involve a literally infinite number of possibilities in the form of algorithms. The output may also take on various modalities, including images displayed on a screen, audio, storage to volatile or non-volatile memory, and transmission by way of network interfaces, just to name a few.