In 2019 in an effort to promote consistency in the patent examination process, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued revised guidance on patent subject matter eligibility, particularly with reference to judicially recognized exceptions to patentability including abstract ideas, laws of nature, and natural phenomenon. The USPTO guidance was later incorporated into the Manual […]
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The May 2017 verdict rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court in Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (“Heartland”) was a powerful blow to non-practicing entities (“NPEs”) seeking to enforce their patent rights. NPEs, sometimes colloquially known as “patent trolls”, are entities which acquire patents for the primary purpose of enforcing those patents through […]
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In October we exhibited at the IoT Tech Expo in Santa Clara, CA, a biannual internationally hosted event for companies in the “Internet of Things” space. The Internet of Things (“IoT”) is the not-so-new buzzword describing the world of network-connected devices. Show attendees and exhibitors we chatted with mostly appeared to embrace the term, although […]
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