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Status of Amazon’s Controversial One-Click Patent in Europe and Elsewhere

Visae Patentes | 6. August 2011 —In a new article titled "Amazon’s One-Click Patent in Europe and Elsewhere" on the ksnh::law blog, I provide a ... of an earlier survey on the legal status of Amazon's 1-click patens in important patent jurisdictions. The focus, however, lies on the four parallel ... is quite pragmatic and approp…

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US Appeal Board Rejects Method and Program for Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics (Ex parte Kelkar)
US Appeal Board Rejects Method and Program for Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics (Ex parte Kelkar)

Visae Patentes | 12. Dezember 2010 — ... of subsequences to achieve similarity with the first gene expression profile; repeating ... gene expression profiles are listed in only one cluster providing output ... R. Agrawal. [...] Specifically, we employ the similar sequence algorithm embodiment of ... a recordable medium”, when…

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US Board of Appeals (BPAI) Rejects Cryptographic Method as Abstract Idea
US Board of Appeals (BPAI) Rejects Cryptographic Method as Abstract Idea

Visae Patentes | 17. November 2010 — ... relating to computer-implemented inventions in the US, namely (i.) Ex parte MacKenzie, ... the second message comprises results generated using the transmitted first component; and outputting a ... sets forth abstract intellectual concepts embodying the invention, which is fundamentally d…

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Status of Amazon's Controversial "One-Click" Patent in Canada, the US, and Europe

Visae Patentes | 23. Oktober 2010 —According to Amazon's well-known and controversally discussed "1-click" invention entitled "method and system for placing a purchase order via a communication network", easy internet shopping is enabled in that a customer visits a website, enters address and payment information and is given an ident…

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Status of Amazon's Controversial
Status of Amazon's Controversial "One-Click" Patent in Canada, the US, and Europe

Visae Patentes | 23. Oktober 2010 — ... second review, e.g. reexamination in the US or opposition proceedings ... patent comprises patentable subject-matter. The Commissioner of Patents' (second-instnace ... a “business method exclusion” and the questionable interpretation of legal authorities ... essentially unscathed, since, ac…

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Internet Advertising is an Abstract Idea says US District Court
Internet Advertising is an Abstract Idea says US District Court

Visae Patentes | 2. September 2010 — ... 7,346,545 invalid in view of the US Supreme Court's ... interpreted Bilski to completely reject the machine-or-transformation test, while ... Internet via a facilitator” comprises the following steps: receiving, from a ... . Machine or Transformation: According to the Court's…

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Internet Advertising is an Abstract Idea says US District Court
Internet Advertising is an Abstract Idea says US District Court

Visae Patentes | 2. September 2010 — ... 7,346,545 invalid in view of the US Supreme Court's ... interpreted Bilski to completely reject the machine-or-transformation test, while ... Internet via a facilitator” comprises the following steps: receiving, from a ... . Machine or Transformation: According to the Court's…

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US CAFC says that a Computerized Method is not Infringed when a Step is Performed by Hand
US CAFC says that a Computerized Method is not Infringed when a Step is Performed by Hand

Visae Patentes | 15. August 2010 — ... computer-implemented inventions. The US Federal Circuit (CAFC) found in case no ... instead performed manually rather then automatically. The CAFC thus reversed and remanded ... minimum annuity payments. Claim 35, the only independent claim at issue, ... manual check and sends it to the poli…

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US CAFC says that a Computerized Method is not Infringed when a Step is Performed by Hand
US CAFC says that a Computerized Method is not Infringed when a Step is Performed by Hand

Visae Patentes | 15. August 2010 — ... computer-implemented inventions. The US Federal Circuit (CAFC) found in case no ... instead performed manually rather then automatically. The CAFC thus reversed and remanded ... minimum annuity payments. Claim 35, the only independent claim at issue, ... manual check and sends it to the poli…

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"Software per se" as New post-Bilski Ground of Rejection under 35 U.S.C §101

Visae Patentes | 17. Juli 2010 — On 7 July 2010 the US Board of Patent Appeals and ... , data structures, usage rules, and the abstract intellectual processes associating them ... a "computing entity". Another statement in the specification said that "A ... " or "abstract idea", whereas, technically, the term "software" m…

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How the Open Source Community Discusses the Supreme Court's Bilski Opinion
How the Open Source Community Discusses the Supreme Court's Bilski Opinion

Visae Patentes | 17. Juli 2010 — ... business methods and software remain, in principle, patentable subject-matter, as ... that, according to his understading, the rationale against Bilski' invention (abstract ... to run its course in the US economy" and hopes both ... . Further - rather controversal - statements from the F…

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The Blogosphere Vibrates: Bilski's Business Method Rejected but Software Remains Patent Eligible
The Blogosphere Vibrates: Bilski's Business Method Rejected but Software Remains Patent Eligible

Visae Patentes | 1. Juli 2010 — ... -related inventions remain patent eligible in the US. This applicant-friendly opinion is ... 's machine or transformation test as the benchmark for patentability determinations under Section ... on Decision"; techdirect: "Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software …

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Further Bilski Rumors
Further Bilski Rumors

Visae Patentes | 23. Mai 2010 — ... extraordinarily long lag between the oral arguments in the Bilski vs. Kappos case held by the Supreme Court on November 9, ... having sources within or rather close the Supreme Court is that there ... consider Bilski's claims patentable, while the Supreme Court aims at an ... one dissent only…

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Will USPTO use Section 112 more often in rejections of software patents claims?
Will USPTO use Section 112 more often in rejections of software patents claims?

Visae Patentes | 8. Mai 2010 — ... v. Eli Lilly and concluded that the written description requirement remains alive ... essential “backstop” against overclaiming. In the case, the Federal Circuit held ... decision is considered important for the USPTO because written description is ... function. Now, Jim Singer concludes …

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Software patenting in developed software-producing countries

Visae Patentes | 15. April 2010 — ... software industries in the world, including the developed countries US, Europe ... of a claim beeing patentable in principle cannot be taken into ... computer-implemented method "an invention", the UKIPO usually rejects applications if ... previously performed by hardware, or the systematis…

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