The “ancient” concept of patronage invalidates crowd-funding patent News September 10, 2015 By Thomas Keely Old concepts performed on a computer still are not patent eligible, as reinforced by the Southern District of New York’s... Read More
Structure or process? The Fed. Cir. clarifies software patent requirements News July 13, 2015 By Thomas Keely “Software may be patent eligible, but when a claim is not directed towards a process, the subject matter must exist... Read More
Don’t let your preamble doom your claim construction News March 09, 2015 By Thomas Keely Take care when drafting preambles and summaries in U.S. patent applications. The Federal Circuit recently reminded practitioners of the pitfalls... Read More