Filmmakers and fest programmers (past and present) joined a discussion on festivals aptly called “Surviving the Festival Circuit” last week at SXSW, a conversation that basically became a Festivals ...

“Since June 2014, Federal Circuit panels invalidated patent claims based on Section 101 at a high rate. At Step 1, these panels found the claims ‘directed to’ ineligible subject matter 82.1% of the ...

The Federal Circuit has only found patents valid in one Section 101 appeal since the Supreme Court's Alice verdict. Frustrated IP practitioners are hoping the court will soon change from telling them ...

Counsel have four takeaways from a precedential decision handed down by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on patent eligibility. The appellate court ruled on Wednesday, September 28, in ...

“In our view, the claims ‘simply recite conventional actions in a generic way’… and ‘do not purport to improve any underlying technology….” – Judge Kara Stoll On Thursday, August 26, the U.S. Court of ...

To meet the need for a simple Windows-based circuit-simulation program, a new software package called Power Circuits 101 is available for modeling electrical Thomas G. Chadbourne, Consultant, ...