by Steve Driskill | Feb 21, 2014 | Claim Interpretation
Although of little direct or immediate impact on prosecution, retaining centralized de novo review at the Federal Circuit should at least help with providing “national uniformity, consistency, and finality to the meaning and scope of patent claims,” even at the PTO...
by Steve Driskill | May 10, 2013 | [sub] computer-related, Subject Matter Eligibility
Although a majority of the judges on the court agreed that the method claims do not recite patent eligible subject matter, no majority of those judges agreed as to the legal rationale for that conclusion. Accordingly, though many supporting opinions were published...
by Steve Driskill | Aug 31, 2012 | [sub] divided, Infringement
Method claims just got more valuable and harder to evade infringement liability. To prove induced infringement, it is no longer necessary that the claimed steps be performed by a single entity. (The single entity requirement still exists for direct infringement...
