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Ex Parte Brown

17 Cited authorities

  1. Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International

    573 U.S. 208 (2014)   Cited 1,431 times   520 Legal Analyses
    Holding ineligible patent claims directed to the concept of "intermediated settlement," i.e., the use of a third party to mitigate the risk that only one party to an agreed-upon financial exchange will satisfy its obligation

  2. Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC

    772 F.3d 709 (Fed. Cir. 2014)   Cited 500 times   47 Legal Analyses
    Holding that displaying an advertisement in exchange for access to copyrighted material is an abstract idea

  3. Vas-Cath Inc. v. Mahurkar

    935 F.2d 1555 (Fed. Cir. 1991)   Cited 395 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding construction of § 112, ¶ 1 requires separate written description and enablement requirements

  4. In re Kahn

    441 F.3d 977 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 148 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the motivation-suggestion-teaching test, much like the analogous-art test, is used to defend against hindsight

  5. Purdue Pharma L.P. v. Faulding Inc.

    230 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2000)   Cited 78 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the disclosure does not have to provide in kaec verba support in order to satisfy the written description requirement

  6. Shortridge v. Foundation Construction Payroll Service, LLC

    Case No. 14-cv-04850-JCS (N.D. Cal. Apr. 14, 2015)   Cited 17 times

    Case No. 14-cv-04850-JCS 04-14-2015 DOUGLAS MAURICE SHORTRIDGE, Plaintiff, v. FOUNDATION CONSTRUCTION PAYROLL SERVICE, LLC, et al., Defendants. JOSEPH C. SPERO Chief Magistrate Judge ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS Re: Dkt. No. 40 I. INTRODUCTION This case arises from pro se Plaintiff Douglas Shortridge's claim that Defendants Foundation Construction Payroll Service (dba Payroll4Construction.com), Foundation Software, Inc., and Associated Builders and Contractors,

  7. Kickstarter, Inc. v. Fan Funded, LLC

    11 Civ. 6909 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. Jun. 29, 2015)   Cited 13 times
    Holding that patent claims directed to the "concept of incentive-based funding is incontestably similar to other 'fundamental economic concepts,' and to other types of 'organizing human activity,' both of which have been found to be abstract ideas by the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit" (quoting Alice, 573 U.S. at 219, 134 S.Ct. 2347)

  8. CMG Fin. Servs., Inc. v. Pac. Trust Bank

    50 F. Supp. 3d 1306 (C.D. Cal. 2014)   Cited 13 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[c]omparing the language of the system claims with that of the method claims, it is clear that they are functionally identical.... Thus, they must be treated as equivalent for the purposes of the § 101 analysis.”

  9. Lendingtree, LLC v. Zillow, Inc.

    656 F. App'x 991 (Fed. Cir. 2016)   Cited 6 times   2 Legal Analyses

    2014-1435 2014-1531 2015-1186 07-25-2016 LENDINGTREE, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant v. ZILLOW, INC., Defendant-Cross-Appellant NEXTAG, INC., ADCHEMY, INC., Defendants STEPHEN S. KORNICZKY, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by MARTIN BADER, MICHAEL MURPHY; EDWARD V. ANDERSON, Palo Alto, CA. J. DAVID HADDEN, Fenwick & West, LLP, Mountain View, CA, argued for defendant-cross-appellant. Also represented by TODD RICHARD GREGORIAN, SAINA

  10. Bannum, Inc. v. United States

    616 F. App'x 420 (Fed. Cir. 2015)   Cited 6 times
    Finding the "[p]atent's eleven Claims [we]re sufficiently straightforward that claim construction [wa]s not necessary to understand their content"

  11. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,386 times   1048 Legal Analyses
    Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it

  12. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,143 times   481 Legal Analyses
    Holding the party seeking invalidity must prove "the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains."

  13. Section 101 - Inventions patentable

    35 U.S.C. § 101   Cited 3,511 times   2284 Legal Analyses
    Defining patentable subject matter as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof."

  14. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 186 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Giving the Director authority to designate "at least 3 members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board" to review "[e]ach appeal, derivation proceeding, post-grant review, and inter partes review"

  15. Section 134 - Appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 134   Cited 98 times   30 Legal Analyses

    (a) PATENT APPLICANT.-An applicant for a patent, any of whose claims has been twice rejected, may appeal from the decision of the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. (b) PATENT OWNER.-A patent owner in a reexamination may appeal from the final rejection of any claim by the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. 35 U.S.C. § 134 July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 801; Pub. L. 98-622

  16. Section 41.50 - Decisions and other actions by the Board

    37 C.F.R. § 41.50   Cited 34 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Requiring petitioners to raise the Board's failure to designate a new ground of rejection in a timely request for rehearing