The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board correctly refused to substitute proposed amended claims for being directed to ineligible subject ...

“In our view, the claims ‘simply recite conventional actions in a generic way’… and ‘do not purport to improve any underlying technology….” – Judge Kara Stoll On Thursday, August 26, the U.S. Court of ...

“Since June 2014, Federal Circuit panels invalidated patent claims based on Section 101 at a high rate. At Step 1, these panels found the claims ‘directed to’ ineligible subject matter 82.1% of the ...

On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., Case No. 2023-2437 (Apr. 18, ...

The Federal Circuit has only found patents valid in one Section 101 appeal since the Supreme Court's Alice verdict. Frustrated IP practitioners are hoping the court will soon change from telling them ...

Electronics-loving orthodontic clinician Dr. Mark Brickley has developed a collection of electronic circuit-building experiments, tested them on unsuspecting colleagues, and then squeezed them into a ...

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