The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a trial court’s decision and held that a programmable memory caches, permitting the system to operate with different processors, which enhances computer performance is patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. sec 101 and … [Read more...]
Computer System Determining Orientation to Reference Defines Patent Eligible Subject Matter
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that computer system claims used in an inertial tracking system for tracking the motion of an object relative to a moving reference frame defines patent eligible subject matter under Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. section 101. The … [Read more...]
Fed. Cir. Upholds Commodity Pricing Computer Program Patent as Being Patent Eligible Subject Matter
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a trial court decision finding that the computer software patent was patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. sec. 101 and affirmed the District Court’s decision. Trading Technologies Int’l Inc. v. CQG, Inc., Case No. … [Read more...]
Network Filtering and Aggregation Computer Program Patent Eligible Subject Matter
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that a number of related computer program and system patents for merging data in a network-based filtering and aggregating platform for enhancing networked accounting data records defines patent eligible subject matter under 35 … [Read more...]
Computer Program is Patent Eligible Subject Matter With Sequences, Timings and Weighted Sets
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has approved, for only the third time since the Alice Corp decision in June 2014, a computer program as being patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because the invention was an ordered combination of claimed steps for … [Read more...]
Patent Office Appeal Board Finds Financial Computer Process Patent Not Ineligible Subject Matter
Petitioner sought to invalidate patentee’s financial patent on a modified ATM machine arguing that the patent covered ineligible patent subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Act but since Petitioner failed to present arguments on Patentee’s “combination of elements,” the … [Read more...]