IP Litigator Publishes Rash, Kenyon Article on Patent Eligibility and Computers
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“Improvements from Using a Computer May Not Transform Abstract Idea into a Patent-Eligible Concept,” an article by Akin Gump intellectual property partner C. Brandon Rash and associate Brooks Kenyon, has been published by IP Litigator. The article began life as a posting to Akin Gump’s IP Newsflash blog (see here).
The authors look at patent eligibility of computer-implemented claims, specifically the question of whether these claims “merely implement a generic computer or whether they improve the functioning of the computer itself.” In this light, they discuss the Federal Circuit’s decision in a recent case, Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corp., which posed the question of patents directed to delivering advertising data to a set-top box, and analyze the court’s thinking in the matter.
To read the full article as published in IP Litigator, click here.
