31. Dezember 2010 — The most impressive fireworks of this year were already lit in April at the Icelandic glacier Eyjafjallajökull (Photo (C) 2010 via Wikimedia under the terms of a CC license). The year is nearly over, the time for statistics has come. The following are my 10 most popular blog postings in 201…
12. Dezember 2010 — [part of a heat map of gene expression value; from Wikimedia] In Ex parte Kelkar, claims were directed to a method for determining similarity between portions of gene expression profiles or genes (independent claim 1) and a program product having computer readable code stored on a recordabl…
28. November 2010 — The occurrence of this blog in the IP blogoshere wasn't quite as dramatic as the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull in spring this year. However, for me personally it was a rather big step to integrate more or less regular blogging into my daily rountine, so that I hope that some readers could/…
17. November 2010 — Signature of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) In early October 2010, the US Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) issued three interesting decisions relating to computer-implemented inventions in the US, namely (i.) Ex parte MacKenzie, App. No. 10/183,900, (ii.) Ex parte Kelkar, App…
2. September 2010 — On 13 August 2010, a Los Angeles District Court found patent US 7,346,545 invalid in view of the US Supreme Court's Bilski v. Kappos opinion. The patent relates to delivering of copyrighted media products (e.g. audio or video data) through a computer or server to internet users free of …
2. September 2010 — On 13 August 2010, a Los Angeles District Court found patent US 7,346,545 invalid in view of the US Supreme Court's Bilski v. Kappos opinion. The patent relates to delivering of copyrighted media products (e.g. audio or video data) through a computer or server to internet users free of …
15. August 2010 — (Photo shows a court room of the US CAFC) Thanks to a tweet of "PatentLawFirm", I came across an interesting US case law relating to infringement of computer-implemented inventions. The US Federal Circuit (CAFC) found in case no 2009-1403 (Lincoln National vs. Transamerica) that a compute…
15. August 2010 — (Photo shows a court room of the US CAFC) Thanks to a tweet of "PatentLawFirm", I came across an interesting US case law relating to infringement of computer-implemented inventions. The US Federal Circuit (CAFC) found in case no 2009-1403 (Lincoln National vs. Transamerica) that a compute…
8. August 2010 — Back in April this year, the parilament of New Zealand voted for a major Patents Reform Bill that tightened the standards of patentability of software-implemented inventions, such that they would have been broadly eliminated in New Zealand. The bill was drafted by the Select Commerce Committee afte…
27. Juli 2010 — After the USPTO's Memorandum of June 28, 2010 for guidance of Patent Examiners and some debate on whether or not the memorandum involves a reversal of the burden of proof, the USPTO today published an "Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in view of Bilski …
20. Juli 2010 — In my earlier posting regarding the USPTO's approach to the recent Bilski opinion of the US Supreme Court, I found, like others (see here and here), that the interim guidance for patent examiners, in which USPTO examiners were adviced that "if a claimed method does not meet the machine-or-transfor…
17. Juli 2010 — On 7 July 2010 the US Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has decided its first decision after the Supreme Court's opinion on Bilski v. Kappos (see earlier posting here or here). In the the case ex parte Proudler (Hewlett Packard) the BPAI rejected all of the pendin…
17. Juli 2010 — After the Supreme Court of the United States decided in its long awaited Bilski opinion of June 28, 2010, that both business methods and software-related inventions may still represent eligible subject matter according to 35 U.S.C. §101, the free and open source software (FOSS) community and other …
8. Juli 2010 — On the very same day the US Supreme Court handed down its long awaited Bilski v. Kappos opinion, the USPTO issued a memorandum for guidance of Patent Examiners, authored by Robert W. Bahr, Acting Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, according to which: Examiners should continue…
1. Juli 2010 — Much as expected, the US Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit's decision Bilski v. Kappos in that the rejection of Bilski's patent claims was upheld. While the Court considered the claims as impermissible attempt to patent abstract ideas, it explicitly left open the possibility of protecting …
30. Mai 2010 — In the decision X ZB 22/07 ("Steuerung von Untersuchungsmodalitäten") of January 20, 2009, the X. (10th) Civil Panel of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) under Chief Judge Uwe Scharen analysed the circumstances under which an "embedded" software may represent statutory subject-m…
23. Mai 2010 — I am currently in Boston for the INTA Annual Meeting, and there are increasing rumors about the reasons for the extraordinarily long lag between the oral arguments in the Bilski vs. Kappos case held by the Supreme Court on November 9, 2009 and the issuance of the decision and, of course, about whet…
15. April 2010 —In the first issue of the newly founded Journal of Computer Science & Comunication of the Kurukshetra University, India, an article on Software Patent and Current Trends of Mr Garima Goswami and K.P. Yadav has been published. The article tries to briefly sketch the current legal situation in sof…
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