JD Supra

Patent Directed to Testing Electronic Circuits Using a Laser Beats § 101 Challenge

Plaintiff SEMICAPS filed suit in the Northern District of California, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,623,982, which relates to the testing of electronic circuits using a laser. The ...
IPWatchdog

Lessons From a Quantitative Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Section 101 Decisions Since Alice

“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 ...
IPWatchdog

Federal Circuit Delivers 101 Victory for Patent Owner in Dumbbell Patent Case

“Claim 1 is thus ‘limited to a specific implementation of a technological improvement to’ selectorized dumbbells… We hold that the limitations in this claim provide enough specificity and structure to ...
Law

Splicing Patent Eligibility: The Federal Circuit Restores § 101 Eligibility for Engineered Cells in 'REGENXBIO v. Sarepta'

"This article reviews the background of the dispute, the Federal Circuit's reasoning, and the practical implications for patent strategy in the field of biologics." In REGENXBIO Inc. v. Sarepta ...
JD Supra

Federal Circuit Clarifies § 101 Patent Eligibility for Composition-of-Matter Claims

In a significant decision, the Federal Circuit reversed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) finding that claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,508,502 (502 Patent) were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § ...
Electronic Design

Program Streamlines Power Converter Simulation

To meet the need for a simple Windows-based circuit-simulation program, a new software package called Power Circuits 101 is available for modeling electrical and electronic circuits. The software ...