All Things Pros

All Things Pros focuses exclusively on patent prosecution. The blog uses PTAB decisions, and the prosecution history that led to appeal, to discuss good and bad strategies for handling 102, 103, 101 and 112 rejections. Claim construction using Broadest Reasonable Interpretation is also a major focus. And sometimes you'll find prosecution topics such as after-final, RCE, and restriction practice.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Patent Board extends software per se, printed matter doctrines to reject computer-readable media (CRM) claims

Takeaway: Bucking decades of settled precedent and USPTO guidance, the Patent Board rejected claims reciting computer-readable media (CR...

IBM wins reversal of Alice rejections for targeted ad delivery at airports

Takeaway: Finding, under step two of the Alice analysis, the rejected claims to recite an advancement to the technology for delivering...

Friday, May 4, 2018

Do examiners really need to follow the Berkheimer memo?

Takeaway: The argument that an Alice rejection failed to follow a USPTO requirement to identify abstract ideas by way of comparison ...

Monday, April 30, 2018

Targeted advertising claims survive Alice step two

Takeaway: Improvement arguments succeeded in overturning § 101 subject-matter eligibility rejections of claims relating to Internet-ba...

Monday, April 23, 2018

Improvement arguments and recitation of "time cell" win IBM reversal of Alice rejections at PTAB

Takeaway: The Patent Board reversed § 101 Alice rejections of commercial transaction processing claims when the claims relied on a ...

Monday, April 16, 2018

IBM's improvement arguments overcome Alice rejections, win random number generation claims at the PTAB

Takeaway: The PTAB reversed Alice rejections of pure-software random digital generation claims, crediting the appellants' improve...

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