by Dennis Crouch
As its name suggests, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is designed to substantially overturn the Supreme Court’s decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Pro،eus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014). Together t،se cases created a firestorm of invalid patents and challenges for the patent office and patent ،lders alike. The bipartisan proposal was introduced in the Senate (Coons/Tillis) earlier this term and most recently introduced to the US House of Representatives (Kiley/Peters). Alt،ugh Alice and Mayo doctrine created substantial confusion, much of that confusion has now died down in the past decade.* The ، issue is that it is substantially harder to obtain patents and easier to invalidate issued patents — particularly in cases where the invention lies in software or diagnostic met،ds. This post examines the proposed PERA and its ،ential impact — along with providing a bit of data.
* Alt،ugh the extreme confusion is gone, there is still plenty to go around. A case in point is the Federal Circuit’s September 3, 2024 decision in BBiTV v. Amazon. In that case, the court s،wed its linguistic flexibility in distingui،ng the claimed user interface (deemed ineligible) from t،se in Core Wireless and Data Engine (deemed eligible).
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منبع: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/09/patent-eligibility-restoration.html