“While ‘abstract ideas’ are not patentable in the United States, the UK does not consider abstraction relevant when considering patentable subject matter. Either the patent claims, for example, a ...

With the emergence of new technologies courts have recently revisited the issue of what subject matter is patentable to strike the right balance between granting patents that promote innovation and ...

The issue of what subject matter should be patentable under 35 U.S.C. §101 is one that over the past decade has been rapidly evolving—and fairly controversial. The issue has been most prevalent, and ...

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The USPTO has released a report providing an overview of patent eligibility law and feedback it has received on the issue. A majority of commenters recommended legislative change The USPTO has ...

“Equipping an application with the descriptive capability to distinguish patent worthy subject matter from the prior art enables practitioners to prove what they know.” In Part I of this series, we ...

The subject matter qualifying for a patent under Chinese patent laws is restricted in the following three ways. An invention is prima facie patentable if it does not fall into these three exclusions.

Makers of biotech therapies and in vitro diagnostics may be understandably weary of hearing about patent subject matter eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act, but Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) ...