Snapchat’s patent, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, talks about seamlessly integrating Augmented Reality (AR) in real world scenarios. The technology uses GPS or similar system to determine a user’s location. After they’ve clicked a picture of a real world scenario (park for example), the technology then matches these images against its [...]
Section 3(k) of the Patents Act excludes the following inventions from patentability: mathematical or business method; computer programs per se (by itself); or algorithm. What is confusing about the patentability of computer programs under section 3(k) is the use of the phrase ‘per se’. Until 2015, there was no uniformity among the four patent [...]
Supreme court had tighten norms regarding venue for patent infringement purpose. In the TC Heartland LLC vs. Kraft food Groups Brands LLC, the supreme court had shifted the balance easily away from the Eastern District of Texas. for many US firms it is a era of Delaware. Restricting the residential requirement, section 28 U.S.C.$1400 [...]
Like the millions of patent applications before it, the one filed in Gatineau, Que., by the Canadian subsidiary of U.S. drug giant Purdue Pharma promised remarkable things. The company’s researchers had “surprisingly” discovered a new way to treat pain. Purdue’s innovative pill would substantially improve the “efficiency and quality of pain management,” because it [...]
The U.S. patent system is not in a good place today. Patents are worth substantially less than they were a decade ago, patents are much easier to challenge thanks to the high kill rate of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and some of America’s most innovative industries face questions as to whether [...]
The Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on the issue, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank has left the IP bar without a clear, reliable test to determine when exactly a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none.” This has left us [...]
