by MAnderson | Jul 17, 2020 | Claim Interpretation
For nearly a decade now, Google and Oracle have been litigating (filed Aug. 13, 2010) over the applicability of copyright to application programming interfaces (API). Over that time period, APIs have only become more widespread and essential to the content delivery...
by Steve Driskill | Dec 7, 2016 | [sub] motivation, Obviousness
Merely adopting the position of one of the parties to an appeal or review is generally insufficient to support a finding of obviousness by the PTAB. Here, for example, the PTAB’s reliance on only a conclusory statement by an expert that the modification of the prior...
by Steve Driskill | Nov 29, 2016 | [sub] Alice step two, Subject Matter Eligibility
Computer-based automation of a desired result without reciting a particular method for achieving that result does not rise to the level of an inventive concept under step two of the Mayo/Alice framework for establishing subject matter eligibility. Here, for example,...
by Steve Driskill | Nov 17, 2016 | [sub] corresponding structure, Means Plus Function
A broad class of algorithms for performing the function of a computer-implemented means-plus-function element, as opposed to a single or small set of algorithms, is not sufficiently definite to provide the requisite algorithmic structure. Here, for example, the...
by Steve Driskill | Nov 15, 2016 | [sub] analogous art, Prior Art
A prior art reference need not be directed to the claimed point of novelty in order to be analogous. Here, for example, prior art directed to the ordering of menu items was found to be analogous to the claimed prioritization of location-based search results because...
