In Bilski v. Kappos, the Court reiterated that abstract ideas are not patent eligible, gave little guidance as to what it meant by “abstract idea” other than that the Court was concerned about claims that were too broad and referred us to its...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s highest court, has upheld the decisions of the Grand Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Union General Court canceling the Community Trademark...

The long-awaited decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in the case of In re Bilski was handed down on October 30,...

In March 2009, we reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had issued a decision in the case of Tafas v. Doll (formerly, Tafas v. Dudas). Subsequent to that decision, the Federal Circuit granted a rehearing en banc, and...

In its decision in In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals held that a claim to a process only sets out patent-eligible subject matter if the claim requires use of a particular machine or involved a transformation of something to a...

The primary focus has been in the “mental steps” area, although early in the year the Federal Circuit refused to reconsider its 2007 decision that a disembodied signal did not qualify for patent protection as a...