In new guidance on patent subject matter eligibility, the USPTO has responded to six themes brought up in feedback on last year’s interim guidance. IP practitioners say new examples provided with the ...
“In essence, by narrowly identifying certain subject matter groups as being those that properly qualify for characterization as abstract ideas the USPTO is effectively defining what is and what is not ...
Significant uncertainty surrounds the patentability of software inventions. Machine learning inventions are particularly susceptible to being considered unpatentable abstract ideas. Uncertainty ...