Electric Power Group, LLC v. Alstom S.A., Alstom Grid Inc., Psymetrix, LTD,. Alstom Limited

The fight by patent practitioners through the murky waters of patent eligibility for data processing/computing based inventions may have had an additional degree of clarity added with the Federal…


MedCo v. Hospira—Federal Circuit Guidance on What Constitutes a “Sale” under § 102(b)

On July 11, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a unanimous decision, which addressed what constitutes a “sale” for the purposes of the “on sale” bar to patentability pursuant to 35 U.S.C § 102(b)…