Partnering In Patents XXI Program At USPTO Oct 22nd

Since I am suffering from section 101 fatigue, tomorrow I will be speaking at this program on indefiniteness post-Nautilus. However, this meeting gets interesting earlier in the afternoon when Andrew Hirschfeld presents on “Updates on 101 training and Examiner Guidance” (working title) followed by Michael Stein, the “AIPLA Speaker” whose topic is “Understanding Patent Eligibility After Alice, Practical Tips for Practitioners and Examiners.”

The big question for my computer law and software brethren is whether or not there is any patent eligibility post-Alice for the inventions claimed in most of their pending applications? A quick survey by one of my partners indicates that over 90% of the applications filed by one big “software company” in Class 705 (Data Processing; Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination) that have received Office Actions in August received 101 rejections. As a stock car race driver once said to me when he was boxed in and about to “take the wall,” “I had nowhere to go but up.”

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