USPTO Guidance Expands High-Tech Patent Eligibility

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is making it easier to get patents for transformative technology. Over the past decade, the USPTO has rejected growing numbers of patent applications, covering a variety of software from fintech to social networking to machine learning, under § 101 as abstract and patent-ineligible. That landscape is now shifting….
By: Fenwick & West LLP