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Innovative Data Processing Is an Ineligible Algorithm

In Re THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A claim directed to an innovative mathematical process to generate data was a patent ineligible algorithm that lacked any improvement of a…

March 11, 2021PTAB1 min read

VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. V. WEST-WARD PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Federal Circuit Summary Before Prost, Lourie and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary : When another patent for a drug issues after an ANDA is filed, there can still be jurisdiction for an infringement…

April 16, 2018Federal Circuit3 min read