Category Archives: Patent Eligible Subject Matter

Yu v. Apple – Transubstantiation of a Machine into an Abstract Idea

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Warren Woessner

Every time the courts re-define a mechanical device as an abstract idea, I struggle with the rationale that is applied to evaluate the claimed subject matter for patent eligibility under s. 101. I am not a computer scientist so the … Continue reading →

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Neapco’s Brief in Opposition to AA’s Petition for Cert.

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Warren Woessner

On March 31, 2021, Neapco Holdings LLC filed its Brief in Opposition to American Axle’s Petition for Cert. If you need a refresher on the proceedings to date, please read (or re-read) the analyses I posted on Jan. 11, 2021 … Continue reading →

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In re: Board of Trustees of Stanford: “Big Data” Personalized Medicine is an Abstract Idea

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Warren Woessner

In re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Appeal no. 2020-1012 (Federal Circuit, March 11, 2021) a three judge panel of Prost, Lurie and Reyna affirmed the ruling by the Board of Appeals that the claims of … Continue reading →

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Illumina v. Ariosa – Ariosa Petitions for Cert.

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Warren Woessner

The first panel decision below can be found at 952 F.3d 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2020). I posted on this decision on June 1, 2020, days before the Fed. Cir. issued a modified panel decision in August, 967 F.3d 1319 (Fed. … Continue reading →

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