On March 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in the case of In Re: Xencor, Inc. 1 In this Appeal from the Appeals Review Panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal ...
On July 17, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) released new guidance on subject matter eligibility, entitled “The 2024 Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Update Including ...
The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...
During the rapid development of the biotech industry in the nineties, large numbers of tests, research tools and assays were developed. Such inventions were primarily patent-protected using "method" ...