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Wayne F. Reinke

Recent Articles from Wayne F. Reinke

Expert Opinion July 7, 2022

IP Frontiers: Patentable subject matter – An American Axle update

In American Axle, the invention was directed to a method for manufacturing a shaft assembly of a driveline system, historically considered to be patentable subject matter. The first claim addressed included a step of turning a mass and stiffness of a liner. The tuning was qualified in that it was said to be a tuned […]

Expert Opinion November 9, 2021

IP Frontiers: Proposed rules for the Copyright Claims Board

The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (the CASE Act) included a direction from Congress to create the Copyright Claims Board (the “CCB”), a three-member panel giving an option to resolve copyright disputes involving less than $30,000. The CCB is intended to be less complex than Federal Court and be operational by the […]

Expert Opinion September 13, 2021

IP Frontiers: Yu v. Apple Inc.: Yet Another Alice Disaster

In Yangin Yu, Zhongxuan Zhang v. Apple Inc. (Fed. Cir. June 11, 2021), hereinafter “Yu v. Apple,” the Federal Circuit majority proves there is a serious problem with its § 101 jurisprudence, which has expanded to the point of swallowing at least § 112 and, to an extent, § 102 and § 103. In this article, we explore the […]

Expert Opinion December 16, 2020

IP Frontiers: Will Supreme Court intervene with runaway expansion of §101 by federal circuit?

There is some concern in the patent-sphere about the CAFC conflating §101 (patentable subject matter) with §112 (issues with claim wording and/or support of claims in specification) and other considerations. There is no better example of this than the recently modified (twice) opinion of July 31, 2020 for American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco […]

Expert Opinion January 13, 2020

IP Frontiers: A look back at Alice decisions in 2019

In this update to my prior articles on the state of patentable subject matter in the wake of the Supreme Court Alice decision, CAFC decisions in 2019 identified as precedential and involving abstract ideas (computer-related inventions) are considered. The two-part Alice test for patentable subject matter starts by determining whether the claims are directed to […]

Expert Opinion June 17, 2019

IP Frontiers: Toward rebalancing outcomes of Alice patentable subject matter inquiries — part two

It has been about nine months since my last patentable subject matter (aka “Alice”) update, tracking cases and other important information in the wake of the Alice Supreme Court decision. Things continue to improve at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and with examination at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The two-part […]

Expert Opinion May 17, 2018

IP Frontiers: Toward rebalancing outcomes of Alice patentable subject matter inquiries

About five months have gone by since my last update on the state of patentable subject matter after the 2014 Alice Supreme Court decision and its progeny. A number of important developments have taken place during this time, mostly positive in the sense of rebalancing the outcomes Alice patentable subject matter inquiries by courts. The […]

Expert Opinion April 16, 2018

IP Frontiers: What’s in a game: intellectual property protection for the gaming industry

I have come across several smaller gaming companies that say they have never explored Intellectual Property (IP) protection. Typically, I respond with some examples of things they could be protecting. The reactions run the gamut from panic to interest to a glassy-eyed stare. This article will address the various types of IP protection that may […]

Expert Opinion November 20, 2017

IP Frontiers: Computer-related patents after Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International

35 U.S.C. §101 states that “Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.” In the first part of the two-part test set out by the Supreme Court […]

Expert Opinion March 20, 2017

IP Frontiers: Has the Alice pendulum begun to swing in favor of computer-related inventions?

For decades, computer-related inventions have survived various road blocks erected over time (statutory, case law, regulations and USPTO practice). When the latest road block came about and for some time afterward, i.e., Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. __, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), prognosticators decried the death of computer-related patents. Briefly, the […]

Expert Opinion August 18, 2014

IP Frontiers: The fate of computer-related inventions

  Alice Corporation is the owner of several patents directed to mitigating, using a computer as a third-party intermediary, the risk that one of the parties to an agreed-upon financial exchange between two parties will fail to satisfy its obligation. CLS Bank (together with other defendants) operates a global network facilitating currency transactions. The method […]

Expert Opinion September 20, 2010

IP Frontiers: Business method patents alive and well

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Bilski v. Kappos, involving a business method patent. Back in 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided In re Bilski, which affirmed a rejection of patent application claims to a method for managing or hedging risk.

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