Latest NewsOn June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in the case of Bilski v. Kappos holding that Bilski’s method of hedging risk did not constitute patent eligible subject matter because it was an abstract idea. In reaching this conclusion, the Supreme Court held that the “machine or transformation test” on which the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had decided the case was a useful, but not the exclusive, test of whether a process was patent-eligible and, although four members of the Court disagreed, that at least some business methods are eligible for patent protection. More …. Recently the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision involving a patent mismarking claim under 35 USC 292 which involved the lack of deceptive intent of the patent owner in Pequignot v. Solo Cup Co. ___ F3d ___ (Fed. Cir., 2010). The case involved two primary issues: (1) whether it was actionable mismarking to continue to mark product with patent numbers once the subject patents had expired and (2) whether the general language to the effect that a product “may be covered by one or more … pending or issued patents” was actionable mismarking. While mentioning the decision on the first issue, the focus will be on the second issue for purposes of this article. More …. In its decision in American Needle Inc. v. National Football League on May 24, 2010, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that an association formed by the member teams of the National Football League (NFL) to market their intellectual property rights collectively should be treated, for anti-trust law purposes, as a “combination” rather than a single entity. More …. Two February 2010 decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) have added some clarity as to what is patent eligible subject matter in the field of medical inventions where there was previously some conflict between prior decisions of the technical boards of appeal. The two cases were decided were G2/08 (Dosage regime/Abbott Respiratory) and G1/07 (Treatment by surgery/Medi-Physics). More …. |
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