Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Win for Netflix
August 15th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has issued a non-precedential ruling affirming a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that claims in a Broadcom patent related to video-on-demand technology were unpatentable. The Broadcom patents at issue were cha…
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What does “patent pending” mean?
August 10th, 2023
The phrase “patent pending” (sometimes abbreviated “Pat. Pend.”) can be marked on a product or its packaging or marketing material (such as a website) to alert the public that the manufacturer has applied for a patent for the product (or some…
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Categories: Patents
Federal Circuit Finds Gaming Claims Unpatentable
August 9th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the challenged claims of Bot M8 LLC’s gaming patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,078,540, were unpatentable. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC petitioned for Inter…
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US Government Agencies Team Up to Fight AI Abuse
August 8th, 2023
The US Department of Justice (DoJ), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have released a joint statement on fighting bias and discrimination created via the us…
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Categories: Patents
USPTO Vacates Salesforce Reexaminations
August 3rd, 2023
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has vacated Salesforce’s reexaminations against Applications in Internet Time (AIT) because Salesforce was a real-party-in-interest (RPI) in RPX’s previous inter partes review (IPR) against the same pate…
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Adobe Releases “Infringement-Free” AI Image Generator
August 2nd, 2023
Adobe recently released an AI image generator that it claims won’t infringe third-party intellectual property (IP) rights. The new generative AI tool is called Abobe Firefly and it’s in beta for enterprise in Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Expres…
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Categories: Copyright
USPTO Director Again Reverses Patent Board
August 1st, 2023
Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has again reversed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). We discussed an earlier decisio…
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Copyright Office Offers New Guidance on AI
July 25th, 2023
In June, the US Copyright Office hosted an online event focusing on the registration of works containing generative artificial intelligence (GAI) content. We previously wrote in this blog about how a comic book creator sought and initially received c…
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Categories: Copyright
Federal Circuit: Digital Image Patent Claims are Abstract
July 24th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a federal district court decision that certain claims of digital imaging patents are patent-ineligible. The case involves a dispute between the patent owner, Sanderling Management Ltd., and Snap Inc., which operates t…
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Federal Court Dismisses Time-Tracking Patent Complaint
July 21st, 2023
A federal court in the Southern District of New York has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint for patent infringement because the patent was directed to patent-ineligible subject matter. Realtime Tracker, Inc. v. RELX, Inc. involves a patent for b…
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