Author Archives: Warren Woessner

Intellectual Properties Owners Association Proposes Legislative Fix for s. 101

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Warren Woessner

On Wed., February 8, 2017, IPO released the report of its legislation task force. Unlike the hundreds of academic analyses of the legislative history of s. 101 – and this report includes another – the Task Force took the further … Continue reading →

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AKAMAI V – “How To” Induce Infringement of a Method of Treatment Claim

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Warren Woessner

I have both been busy since the holiday season and frankly, uninspired by the case law that has appeared on the scene. Who can be enraptured by the fine points of standing when we are all speculating about whether Michelle … Continue reading →

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Transubstantiation of a Machine into an Abstract Idea

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Warren Woessner

In the Catholic Church “transubstantiation” is the belief that the wafer and the wine become the actual body and blood of Christ during the communion ceremony. Recently, the PTAB went into the mystic to transform claims to a multi-station MRI … Continue reading →

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Chisum Academy Awards for 2016 to Federal Circuit Decisions

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Warren Woessner

This is a guest post from the Chisum Patent Academy. Chisum and Mueller selected the following fifteen (15) cases as the most impactful of the Federal Circuit’s precedential patent law decisions issued in 2016. We excluded Supreme Court patent decisions, all … Continue reading →