Category Archives: Patent Eligible Subject Matter

Section 101 at AIPLA

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Warren Woessner

The increasingly intense conversation about patentable subject matter post-Mayo, Myriad and Alice got off to a slow start at the “Partnering for Patents” meeting held at the PTO on Wednesday. The meeting was a scattering of in-house PTO reports and … Continue reading →

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BIO Provides Supplemental Comments on PTO s.101 Guidelines

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Warren Woessner

BIO recently generated a letter to the PTO on the March 6th Guidelines on the patent-eligibility of subject matter in the life sciences, particularly “natural products.” BIO invited a group of in-house and private practitioners to comment on the Guidelines … Continue reading →

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“The Good Wife” Defends GMOs

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Warren Woessner

Last Sunday’s episode of “The Good Wife” featured a Christian mediation between a farmer (Robert Joy) sued by a Pioneer-like company, represented by the actor Richard Thomas, for saving GMO corn seed for replanting. The facts were a mash-up of … Continue reading →

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PLANET BLUE v. NAMCO – Abstract at the “Point of Novelty”

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Warren Woessner

In McRO, Inc. d.b.a. Planet Blue v. Namco Bandai Games America, civ. No. CV 12-10322-GW (FFMx) (C. D. Cal., Sept. 22, 2014), the granted Defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings that US Patent numbers 6,307,576 and 6,611, 278, were … Continue reading →

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