Karen Potter Ph.D., Jeffrey Schmidt Ph.D. On March 18, 2024, the USPTO issued a memorandum to its Examiners reminding them of the resources and proper analysis for interpreting limitations under 35 ...
“When ‘determining whether software limitations like those at issue here recite sufficient structure, we can look beyond the initial ‘code’ or ‘application’ term to the functional language to see if a ...
Learn a seemingly tricky way to extract data from your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Applying multiple criteria against different columns to filter the data set in Microsoft Excel sounds difficult but ...
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The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe the algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity ...