The Knowledge Group Has Scheduled a Live Webcast on USPTO’s New Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Guidance: What Patent Practitioners Can Do Now
The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, announced today that it has scheduled a live webcast entitled: USPTO’s New Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Guidance: What Patent Practitioners Can Do Now. This one-hour event is scheduled on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET.
- (1888PressRelease) March 22, 2019 - Event Synopsis:
In April 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its new guidance on patent-eligible subject matter based on the Federal Circuit’s decision on Berkheimer v. HP, Inc. The guidance specifically addressed "the limited question of whether an additional element (or combination of additional elements) represents well-understood, routine, conventional activity" and revised certain examination procedures in accordance with the recent jurisprudence.
While the decision does not change the basic criteria of subject matter eligibility set forth in MPEP § 2106, it does, however, reinforce the need for examiners to carefully analyze claims in determining patent-eligible subject matter. The revised procedures also leave a call for patent applicants to be more critical of upcoming updates.
In this LIVE Webcast, a panel of distinguished professionals and thought leaders will help patent owners, applicants and practitioners understand the important aspects of this significant topic. They will provide an in-depth discussion of the new USPTO guidance on patent-eligible subject matter in light of Berkheimer v. HP, Inc. Speakers will also offer significant insights on the implications of this decision on future patent applications.
Key topics include:
- USPTO Issues Guidance on 35 U.S.C. 101
- 2019 New Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Guidance
- Revised Step 2A of the standard analysis with a new two-prong inquiry
- For Abstract Ideas, identifies particular groupings (replaces previous “Quick Reference Sheet”)
- What remains the same
- Revised Examination Procedures
- Revised Step 2A (two-prong inquiry)
- For Abstract Ideas, identifies particular groupings (replaces previous “Quick Reference Sheet”)
- New Examples published by PTO on Patent Eligibility
- Revised Step 2B – Inventive Concept?
- Evaluate whether the claims provides an inventive concept by adding “significantly more” to the judicial exception
- Assertions of well-understood concepts must be supported by factual findings (Berkheimer)
- Insignificant extra-solution activity evaluated at Step 2A must be reevaluated to determine whether it is well-understood
- Impacts and Implications on upcoming Patent Applications
- Tips for Patent Examiners and Applicants
Speakers/Faculty Panel
John T. Lomenick
Attorney
Holland & Hart LLP
Dale Barr
Attorney
Constellation Law Group, PLLC
For an updated list of the faculty panel, please visit:
https://www.theknowledgegroup.org/webcasts/usptos-new-patent-eligible-subject/
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