Category Archives: Patent Eligible Subject Matter

Allvoice Decision Provides Roadmap For Software-based Inventions

Guest post from Greg Stark, attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. In a refreshing break from Alice/Mayo abstract idea based 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejections, the Federal Circuit released a decision invalidating certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,799,273 as … Continue reading

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FDA Finalizes Biosimilar Guidance

The Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS) has posted an informative article “After Three-Year Delay, FDA Finalizes Guidance Documents on Biosimilarity.”  The article includes links to the final guidance documents. You can find the article here.

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“Isolated” Natural Products Still in Purgatory Post-PTO Guidance?

Recently, a new class of antibiotic, teixobactin, was discovered in the soil in a Boston researcher’s backyard via a high throughput in situ screening chip that detected individual bacteria capable of growing in an uncultured state. The resulting isolates were … Continue reading

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USPTO Myriad-Mayo Guidance Still Not At An Alpha Standard

This is a guest post from Paul Cole. As readers will be aware, the USPTO published revised Guidance on Section 101 eligibility in December 2014 together with Nature-Based Examples and Abstract ideas examples. These materials and the case-law on which … Continue reading

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