by MAnderson | May 20, 2020 | [sub] printed matter, Claim Interpretation, Obviousness
Even before the Supreme Court case Alice v. CLS Bank limited the areas of economic and financial innovation which could be patented, Congress was looking at ways to restrict patent applications and patent enforcement in these fields. In addition to business method...
by Steve Driskill | Dec 17, 2015 | [sub] printed matter, Claim Interpretation
Unless claimed directly, origin identification does not constitute printed matter under the printed matter doctrine. Here, for example, the origin of certain web design code snippets (or “assets”) recited as being “authored by third party authors” was found not to...