A unanimous court reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, ruling that shipping a single component cannot trigger a provision of the Patent Act that applies extraterritorially.
Category: Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Adding Pre-Existing Technology Won’t Save a Patent-Ineligible Claim
In the recent FairWarning and Synopsys cases , the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found the challenged claims of a patent ineligible under 35 USC 101 for not claiming a technical improvement. Following this trend, the Federal Circuit reversed in part a Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding of patent-eligible subject matter.