Brooks J. Kenyon

District Court Dismisses Infringement Claims Because The Patent Recited A Patent-Ineligible Method For Real-Time Billable Time Tracking On A Computer

Courts Are Unsettled On Obviousness-Type Double Patenting

District Court Granted Judgment On The Pleadings Because The Patents Recited Patent-Ineligible Mathematical Techniques Executed In An Aircraft Flight Control System

District Court Granted Dismissal Because The Patent Recited A Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea Of Processing And Transmitting Data

District Court Denied Rule 12(b)(6) Motion Based On Section 101 Because Additional Facts And Claim Construction Would Provide Informative Value To Patent-Eligibility Question

Federal Circuit Affirms Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because The Patent Was Directed To The Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea Of Teaching A User To Play The Guitar

District Court Granted Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because The Patent Was Directed To The Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea Of Using Barcodes To Facilitate Bill Payment

Federal Circuit: Improvements Inherent To Using A Computer, Such As Improved Speed And Efficiency, Do Not Transform An Abstract Idea Into A Patent-Eligible Concept

District Court Awards Post-Markman Attorneys' Fees After Plaintiff Continued To Litigate Claims That Became Baseless In Light Of The Court's Markman Order

No Estoppel In District Court On Prior Art That Differs Substantively—And In A Manner Germane To Invalidity—From That Asserted In IPR