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Friday, January 8, 2024
Expected Initial Ruling In WDPA As to Ameranth’s ‘130 Patent Infringement Complaint Against Doordash’s Billions of Infringing Remote Food Orders
Friday, December 12, 2023
Deadline For Ameranth To File An Appeal To The US Supreme Court Of the Domino’s Appeal Denial By The Federal Circuit
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Deadline For Ameranth To File An En Banc Appeal To The Full ‘12 Judge Panel’ Of the Federal Circuit
Monday, October 2, 2023
Announcement Of US Supreme Court Decision Whether To Grant Cert On Yet Two More ‘101 Appeals
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Issuance of Ameranth's New 'AI Based' '304 Patent
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'304 Patent Specification
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Inventor Tells US Supreme Court Justices - Amgen Ruling Doom’s ‘101 Alice
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Denial Of Ameranth’s Two ‘077 Patent Appeals By Initial ‘3 Judge Panel’ Of the Federal Circuit
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Friday, September 8, 2023
FC Hearings of Ameranth’s Two ‘077 Patent Related Appeals
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
American Axle Driveshaft Patent Survives '101 Alice On Remand
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American Axle, Judge Williams- '101 Eligible on Remand
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Thursday, July 31, 2023
Supreme Court Requested CareDx Response Due - For Cert Petition To Finally Fix/Clarify '101 - 'Abstractness' Law
Ex-Fed. Circ. Chief Judge Backs Another Patent ‘101 Eligibility Case
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Ex Fed Cir, Chief Judge Amicus Brief Recommending Cert for '101 To US Supreme Court
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Ameranth Receives 100% 'Notice of Allowance' From the USPTO - For All #30 Claims, Of Its New Strategically Valuable/Breakthrough, 'AI Based' Patent, Titled 'An Adaptable Computing Network With Real Time, Intelligent, 4D Spherical Scalability, Tech Stack Awareness, Tech Stack Integration, Automatic Bi-Directional Communications Channel Switching And Order Equilibrium - For Large Enterprise, Time Sensitive Event/Transaction Driven Applications’. This New Patent Will Issue In Late August. Details To Follow.
Monday, July 24, 2023
Google Told To Pay $339M In WDTX Chromecast Patent Trial
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Amicus Brief in Killian SCOTUS Case Urges Textualist Interpretation of Section 101
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Supreme Court, Killian '101 Amicus Brief
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
C4IP Report Urges Pro-IP Rights Agenda to Counteract U.S. Innovation Stagnation
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Reaffirm and Refine - A Government Agenda for Intellectual Property
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
House Moves on Bill to Reform the PTAB
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Senators’ Patent Reform Bills Offer a Strong Way Forward for the U.S. Patent System
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Senators Tillis and Coons Bill Would Eliminate all Judicial Exceptions to '101 Patent Eligibility
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SCOTUS Requests Response in CareDx '101 Eligibility Petition
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
US Supreme Court Denies Yet Another Petition To Finally Fix/Clarify '101 - 'Abstractness' Law
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
What's Next For '101 Patent Eligibility After Latest Denials
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Yet Again, The US Supreme Court Denies Cert on Two Further '101 Petitions, Despite US Solicitor General Recommendations
US Supreme Court Justices Again Decline To Reconsider '101 Patent Eligibility Test
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Certiorari Denied in Eligibility Cases
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Friday, May 12, 2023
Clearly, It’s Past Time for the Supreme Court or Congress to Provide Clarity
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Killian Petitions US Supreme Court to End '101 Alice -Mayo
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Supreme Court - New Killian - Cert Petition on '101 Abstractness
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Interactive Wearables, Supplemental-Reply Brief To US Solicitor General Recommendation To Grant Cert
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
'101 Patent Eligibility and the U.S. Solicitor General
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
US Solicitor General Again Urges Supreme Court Justices To Tackle '101 Patent Eligibility In 2 Cases
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US Solicitor General to SCOTUS - Courts Got it Wrong in Interactive Wearables, Right in Tropp—But Both Petitions Should be Granted
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US Solicitor General Brief Recommending Cert Grant on '101 Law
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Ameranth Inc. Files For Prioritized USPTO Examination of Its New, Strategic 21st Century Communications™ Patent
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Friday, March 3, 2023
After A 12 Year Patent Battle, Small Company 'Droplets' Finally Achieves Its Justice
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Judicial Ruling- Droplets v. Yahoo
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Monday, January 30, 2023
Americans Are Gobbling Up Takeout Food - Restaurants Bet That Won’t Change.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Ameranth Files Yet Another New Patent Application, (This - a 'Continuation In Part', -- With Expanded 'Inventive Concepts') And titled: "An Improved, Intelligent And Integrated (I3) 21st Century Communications Back-End and Mobile Network For Hospitality Applications’.
Thus, Three Additional Patents, (With Dozens of New Claims) Are Now Pending, -- In Addition To Some Or All Claims Still Valid, From Five Earlier Patents And More New Patents Are Planned For 2023.
Monday, December 12, 2022
Ameranth Files A Complaint Against DoorDash, Inc For Patent Infringement
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Friday, December 9, 2022
Ameranth ,The Pioneer of 21st Century Communications Technology for the Hospitality Market Initiated Enforcement Of Its New, 2022 '130 patent, (the lead patent in its new 'Web Server Based - Parallel Operational Capability') family of patents, with today's filing of a Patent Infringement complaint, against Doordash Inc, the world's largest food/drink delivery company.
- Doordash Infringement Complaint
- Inventor, Keith McNally Declaration
- Expert, Dr. Michael Goodrich Declaration

The '130 patent leads Ameranth's new patent family, with two applications and #40 combined claims pending -- the 17/665/420: 'An Intelligent Web Server With Multi-Modes Of Contact, Multi Communications Protocols, Multi User and Parallel Operational Capabilities For Use In Completing Remotely Initiated Hospitality Tasks In The Hospitality Market'; And the 18/063/601 : 'An Intelligent Back Office And Handheld/Mobile Distributed Computing Network, With Varying, Multi-Modes Of Contact, Multi Communications Protocols, Multi User and Parallel Operational Capabilities For Use In Completing Remotely Initiated Hospitality Tasks In the Hospitality Market' And Which Are Anticipated To Yield Two Additional Patents In The Next Year. Further, Ameranth Is Finalizing For Early 2023 Submissions To The USPTO, An Additional CIP Application And An Entirely New Patent Application. Thus, Ameranth's current, pending and/or planned patents, including many still valid claims, e.g. in its earlier, '077,'060, '651 and '797 patents, include and/or are anticipated to Result In, at least #128 valid claims, across Nine Different Patents In the Near Term.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Ameranth Files Strong Appeal Briefs to the Federal Circuit - Seeking Restoration Of Its '077 Patent Rights - With the Hearing in DC - Expected in Spring 2023
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
Presenting the Evidence for '101 Patent Eligibility Reform: Part IV - – Uncertainty is Burdening Litigants and Courts, Threatening U.S. Competitiveness and National Security
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Retired CAFC Chief Judge Michel Calls Out CAFC for Tremendous Failure to Provide Clarity on '101 Eligibility Law
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
Former USPTO Director Iancu -Backed Group Urges Lawmakers To Support Tillis IP Bill
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C4IP Letter - to Congress Urging The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act Be Passed
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Presenting the Evidence for Patent Eligibility Reform: Part III - Case Studies and Litigation Data Highlight Additional Evidence of Harm
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Monday, October 17, 2022
Supreme Court Justices Seek SG's Views On Another '101 Patent Eligibility Case
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Federal Circuit Denies Domino's MTD Of Ameranth's Appeal And Sets Ameranth's Two Appeals As Companion Appeals For Next Spring
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Friday, October 14, 2022
Split Fed. Circ. Revives '101 Alice-Axed IP In Google Maps Suit
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Presenting the Evidence for Patent Eligibility Reform: Part II – Harm to R&D Investment, Innovation and U.S. Interests
“Numerous studies have shown that the Supreme Court’s changes to subject matter eligibility law…have decreased confidence in the U.S. patent system… [and] decreased private investment in key areas of technology that rely on patents.”
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Friday, October 7, 2022
Presenting the Evidence for '101 Patent Eligibility Reform - Part I – Consensus from Patent Law Experts
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022
'Momentum Shifts Further Toward Ameranth'
Supreme Court Again Asks For SG's Views On ‘101 Patent Eligibility
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Monday, October 3, 2022
Ex-Fed. Circ. Chief Tells Supreme Court To Undo Ax Of Tech Patent
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Friday, September 30, 2022
Bipartisan Group Aims To Halt 'Downward' Slide Of IP System
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Fed. Circ. Says Licensing Co.'s Software IP May Be '101 Inventive
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Federal Circuit Clarifies '101 Alice Step Two Analysis in Reversal of District Court’s Rule 12 Dismissal
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FC -'101 Precedential Victory - Chief Judge Moore
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Thursday, September 22, 2022
Intellectual Property Luminaries Launch Group To Promote, Defend Innovation.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The Path Forward from American Axle - Discussing Legislative and Agency Rulemaking Fixes to Section 101
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Ameranth's Report To The Federal Circuit Court On How This Appeal Should Proceed.
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Thursday, September 1, 2022
'Momentum Is Shifting Favorably Toward Ameranth'
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
'San Diego Judge Ends Up Letting Domino's Foe Appeal $2.7M Fee Award'
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Alice Made ‘101 Patent Eligibility Too Strict, Supreme Court Justices Told, Aug 10, 2022
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Supreme Court, Tropp Amicus Brief, August 2022
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
USPTO Lawyer Explains Divergence from CAFC on ‘101 Eligibility, August 9, 2022
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Senator Tillis’ Promised '101 Patent Eligibility Bill Would Overrule Myriad, Mayo
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Monday, August 1, 2022
Ameranth, Inc. v. 29 Defendants, Appeal To Restore Its Right to Assert Its Remaining '077 Claims., 22-1655, No. 54 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 1, 2022)
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Friday, July 15, 2022
Petitioner Distances Eligibility Case from American Axle, Imploring SCOTUS to Weigh in on ‘Quasi-Enablement’ Analysis
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
The Case for Patenting AI - U.S. Patent Laws Better Get Smart or Get Left Behind
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
At High Court, Patent Biz Argues Case Is Unlike American Axle
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Friday, July 8, 2022
Supreme Court Justices Are Again Asked For ‘101 Patent Eligibility Clarity
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Supreme Court – Looking Forward to 2022-2023 - July 5, 2022
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Patent Stakeholders Sound Off on SCOTUS’ Refusal to Deal with Eligibility
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Friday, July 1, 2022
Supreme Court Justices' Patent ‘101 Eligibility Denial Won't End Fight For Clarity
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
SCOTUS Kicks '101 Patent Eligibility Cases to the Curb in Last Move of the Term
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Supreme Court Rejects American Axle's '101 Patent Eligibility Bid
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects American Axle case on patent eligibility
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Monday, June 27, 2022
American Axle – Still Waiting
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Supreme Court Justices Skip Software Co.'s Patent Eligibility Row
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Supreme Court, World's Inc. Cert Petition to Clarify '101 Law and Requests to be Held for American Axle
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Ameranth Supplemental Supreme Court Cert Brief
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
IP Practitioners Speak Out on the U.S. Government’s Approach in American Axle Brief
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
Patent Eligibility Case Is Teed Up for Next Supreme Court Term
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
US Solicitor General Urges Justices To Take Up American Axle
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US Solicitor General Tells SCOTUS CAFC Got it Wrong in American Axle, Recommends Granting Cert Appeal
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Solicitor General - Cert Recommendation Brief, '101 Law - American Axle
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Monday, May 23, 2022
Time To Stop 'Post-Alice Bedlam,' Ameranth Urges Supreme Court Justices
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
Ameranth - Supreme Court Cert Petition-Reply Brief, (Conference-Decision Expected June 2022)
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INTRODUCTION
After rejecting all prior pleas to clarify the Alice test, this Court should perceive why the situation is now materially different. The bridge to the technological future is crumbling under the Federal Circuit’s chaotic deadlock. Quibbling over which vehicle will traverse the abyss forestalls the cure that only this Court can provide. This is one of three cases currently pending that present precisely the same legal questions this Court has had under consideration for 1-1/2 years in American Axle, No. 20-891 (decided below by the same district judge as this case). With the presumably imminent filing of the Solicitor General’s views in American Axle, the Court approaches the precipice of finally resolving the confusion, conflicting results, and lack of predictable justice in this critical area of constitutionally protected property rights. Under the principle of uniform application of the law, the same test of patent eligibility should govern all the pending cases. As the petition explained, the entire relevant universe recognizes the urgent need for this Court’s review of the foundational issues of §101 patent eligibility presented in this case. With each passing day, the urgency intensifies.
Monday, May 16, 2022
US Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Clarify '101 Alice In Apple Case
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Thursday, May 6, 2022
'101 Eligibility Law Keeps Evolving As American Axle Still Awaits Overdue SG Recommendation
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Sunday, April 24 2022
New Supreme Court Cert Petition, on '101 Alice, Spireon, Inc, April 2022
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Supreme Court Justices Told Smartwatch Case Is Best For Tackling '101 Alice
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Friday, April 22, 2022
CHICAGO PATENT ATTORNEYS GROUP SUPPORTS ‘101 SC CERT APPEAL OF INTERACTIVE WEARABLES,(SET FOR MAY 16, 2022 CONFERENCE)
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Monday, April 18, 2022
US Supreme Justices Further Pushed To Clarify '101 Alice Ruling, (Decision Expected May 16, 2022)
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Supreme Court- Universal Secure - April 15, 2022 - 21-1056 Reply Brief
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
From Alice To Fintiv - Judge O'Malley Dishes On Patent Law, The Supreme Court's refusal to clarify patent eligibility is 'absurd.'
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Ameranth Attempts to Bump Eligibility Issue Back to Top of SCOTUS’ Inbox
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Monday, March 21, 2022
Yet Another Appeal Petition To The US Supreme Court on '101 Law, Seeking To Be Held for American Axle
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Menu Tech Biz Tries To Latch Onto American Axle Case
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Chief Judge Michel (Ret) Asks US Supreme Court to Grant '101 Petition in USR v. Apple to Save U.S. Innovation
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Ameranth Files Appeal for Cert To The US Supreme Court To Protect The Eligibility Of Its ‘651 IAA Patent - While Further Aligning With The Still Pending American Axle, Cert Petition
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, No. 20-891. Both petitions arise from judgments entered by the same district court judge. Ameranth filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in American Axle specifically identifying this case as one that will be affected by the result in No. 20-891. Although the cases involve different parties, inventions and patents, they both raise the same legal questions:
1. What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is “directed to” a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Alice two-step framework for determining whether an invention is eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101?
2. Is patent eligibility (at each step of the Court’s two-step framework) a question of law for the court, based on the scope of the claims alone or a question of fact, based on the state of art at the time of the invention?
This is one of the thousands of cases in which patents issued by the USPTO, bearing the presumption of validity that can only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence, have summarily perished in district courts adopting conflicting interpretations of § 101. In the last eight years, federal courts applied overly expansive inconsistent views of Alice to eviscerate the “new and useful” test of 35 U.S.C. § 101. They have directly declared thousands of inventions “abstract” and patent ineligible, and the pervasive cloud of uncertainty has indirectly frozen out tens of thousands more.
CONCLUSION: The petition for a writ of certiorari should be granted. Alternatively, the Court should consider prudent ways to coordinate its disposition of this petition with other pending cases presenting questions under 35 U.S.C. § 101, including holding this case pending resolution of American Axle.
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Monday, February 21, 2022
Supreme Court Decision on 'Yu. v. Apple' -- '101 Cert Appeal Petition 'Denied'
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Biden Administration Should Recommend Clarifying '101 Patent Eligibility Law in American Axle
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
'Enough Is Enough'
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PersonalWeb - Supreme Court Cert Petition, on '101 Alice
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Judge Albright Calls SCOTUS '101 Test ‘Confusing Abyss of Patent Eligibility Law’, Denies Motion to Dismiss
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Monday, February 7, 2022
Ameranth Receives Allowance/Approval for Comprehensive New Patent For Mobile Food/Drink Ordering For Delivery/Pick Up Orders.--Notice of Allowance
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Friday, February 4, 2022
Payment Co. Tells Supreme Court Justices Its Case Is 'Perfect' To Clarify '101 - Alice, (Or Hold Its Appeal, for the Soon To Be Decided, American Axle)
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SC - Universal Secure Registry Cert Appeal Petition on '101 Law, File Jan 27, 2021
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
American Axle Coming Soon
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Two Supreme Court IP Cases to Watch in 2022
“While the Court has not yet granted American Axle’s petition, there are clearly a number of stakeholders who believe it’s time for it to weigh in again on patent ineligibility. Perhaps an affirmative recommendation from the SG will provide the impetus needed for the Court to add a second IP case to its 2022 calendar to address this issue."
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
Top Section 101 Patent Eligibility Stories of 2021-
The Supreme Court Continues to Ignore Section 101 … for Now
As Vidal noted during her hearing, many are looking to the Supreme Court to address patent eligibility. So far, the Court has said no thanks with a notable exception: American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings. The Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General, and those views should be submitted any time now. My current prediction is that the Solicitor General recommends granting cert – and that the Supreme Court agrees.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Patent Law at the Supreme Court
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Saturday, December 4, 2021
High Court Asked To Look At Alice Ax In Dropbox Fight
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Supreme Court - New Cert Petition on '101 Law - Zhang.Whitmyerm
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Friday, December 3, 2021
Supreme Court Justices Told Nearly All Tech Faces Alice '101 Ax Without Changes
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SC - Yanbin Yu, et al., Petitioners v. Apple Inc., et al., 21-811, Petition for a writ of certiorari filed, Petition (U.S. Nov. 29, 2021)
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Incoming USPTO Director Vidal Agrees Patent Eligibility Needs More Clarity in Senate Judiciary Committee Questioning
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Monday, November 8, 2021
Great Inventors are Industry Outsiders and Must be Protected
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OPINION-Time to Fight Back Against Big Tech's IP Assault
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Monday, November 1, 2021
While American Axle Petition Still Awaits - High Court Turns Down 3rd ‘101 Patent Eligibility Case In A Month
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Patent Law at the Supreme Court October 2021
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Alice-Insanity (Part One), or Why the '101 Alice-Mayo Test Violates Due Process of Law
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Latest in '101 Patent Ineligibility of Medical Diagnostics Inventions - Further Harming US Innovation
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Eagle Forum Event Participants Delve into '101 Patent Eligibility ‘Goulash'
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The extreme uncertainty that U.S. patent eligibility “validity goulash” jurisprudence has caused is wreaking havoc on inventors, especially those working on emerging technologies. It is also hindering patent owners’ ability to enforce their property rights, investment and licensing deal-making, and giving China advantages in global competitiveness.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
101 Eligibility - Turning Application On-and-Off for Authentication Patent Eligible
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Friday, October 1, 2021
TV Equipment Co. Urges High Court To Pick Its 101 Eligibility Case
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Petition
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
'101 Eligibility- Which Case Will the SC Choose as its Vehicle
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Petition
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Federal Circuit Urged To Tackle Alice 'Uncertainty' On Payment IP
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Fed. Circ. Urged To Tackle Alice 'Uncertainty' On Payment IP
By Britain Eakin
Universal Secure Registry wants the full Federal Circuit to review a decision affirming the invalidity of secure transaction patents it accused Apple and Visa of infringing, arguing the court is increasingly wiping out patents under Alice that should be found eligible. In a petition for rehearing filed Monday, Universal Secure Registry LLC argued that its four patents were among the casualties of the ax it said the Federal Circuit "has wielded with increasing frequency" to invalidate patents under Alice. It cautioned that the current state of patent eligibility jurisprudence is destabilizing technologic development. "This trend has unsettled expectations and created uncertainty as the court's highly fact-specific rulings defy any predictable pattern. The resulting uncertainty about eligibility discourages the innovation that is the engine of the nation's patent system," the petition said.
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Thursday, September 16, 2021
IPWatchdog LIVE Panel Asks if Federal Circuit is Killing Software Patents and Answers Definitively, ‘Yes’
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Thursday, August 26, 2021
In First Half of 2021, 63% of U.S. Patents, 48.9% at EPO and 40.1% in China Were Software-Related
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Still Waiting
Meanwhile, back at the U.S. patent bar, the USPTO, Federal Circuit, Supreme Court, and Congress have not cleared the Alice Section 101 confusion. As former – and still to be replaced – USPTO Director Andrei Iancu stated in his farewell speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on January 19, 2021, “Will [we] finally resolve this issue that has plagued our [patent] system for the past decade?” We’re still waiting…
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Ameranth Awarded $1M Judgement Against Splickit For Its Failure to Pay Required Patent License Fees
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Ameranth, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, LLC et al, No Settlement Reached
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Monday, July 12, 2021
AMERANTH - DOMINOS - JUDGE GALLO - NOTICE AND ORDER FOR JULY 12, 2021 - SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
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Thursday, July 8, 2021
5 Patent Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2021, American Axle Projected to Be Granted SC Cert
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
VoIP-Pal Decries ‘101 Patent Eligibility 'Chaos' To Supreme Court
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Supreme Court -Voip-Cert Petiion, June 2021
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
La Cour d’Appel de l’Absurde (The Court of Appeals of the Absurd)
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Monday, June 21, 2021
Supreme Court Justices Add More Oversight To PTAB In Arthrex Ruling
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Supreme Court - Arthrex - PTAB Ruling
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iLife Ties Its Patent Eligibility Fate to American Axle at Supreme Court
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Sunday, June 20, 2021
The CAFC is Suffering from a Prolonged Version of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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Friday, June 18, 2021
Tech Company Wants SC Justices To Review Nintendo ‘101 Patent Ruling
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SC- ILIFE Technologies, Inc. Cert Petition, Relating to American Axle's '101 Pending Petition
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Federal Circuit's Camera Patent Ax Makes '101 Eligibility Rules Murkier
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Friday, June 11, 2021
'101 Law - Now Extending Eligibility Uncertainty To All Fields
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'It appears that we have not yet seen the most invasive nature of contemporary patent eligibility doctrine. Case in point: Yu v. Apple Inc. (Fed. Cir. June 11, 2021)'.
Federal Circuit Judge Rebukes Panel For '101/Alice Ax Of Camera Patent
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'Although today's Section 101 uncertainties have arisen primarily in the biological and computer-implemented technologies, all fields are affected," she wrote in her dissent. "The case before us enlarges this instability in all fields, for the court holds that the question of whether the components of a new device are well-known and conventional affects Section 101 eligibility, without reaching the patentability criteria of novelty and non-obviousness.'
Friday, May 28, 2021
Ameranth Default Judgement Motion Against Splick-it Inc. Filed
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Monday, May 10, 2021
Judge Sabraw Denial of Ameranth’s Reconsideration Motion of February 5, 2021 Dominos Ruling.
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[Ameranth Will Promptly Appeal This Ruling To The Federal Circuit - Due To Its Multiple Errors Of Law/Fact. In Addition And In Parallel, the US Supreme Court Is Anticipated To Grant The American Axle '101 Law Appeal In Fall 2021, Which - If So - Would/Will Likely Also Overturn This Ruling.]
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
High Court is Poised to Un-Muddy the Section 101 Waters Nearly Seven Years After Alice
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Monday, May 3, 2021
Supreme Court offers Hope on Eligibility Case
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Monday, May 3, 2021
Anticipated US Supreme Court American Axle Cert Petition Grant Approval (If accepted - For Supreme Court Review – (As Is Expected), Most Experts, Anticipate That the SC Will Clarify/Correct ‘101 law In Such A Way - As To Reverse/Overturn All Of Ameranth’s Recent ‘101 Ruling Losses)
Friday, April 30, 2021
Supreme Court Conference To Decide On Whether To Grant the American Axle '101 Cert Appeal Petition
Monday, April 26, 2021
The Next Era Of The Federal Circuit - (To Be Led by Chief Judge Moore) - Is Hoped to be More Reasonable and Fair, Especially On '101 Law
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Wednesday April 14, 2021
American Axle Cert Petition Officially Distributed To The Supreme Court for the April 30, 2021 Conference Review
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Judge Sabraw Cancels April 16, 2021 Oral Hearing On Ameranth's Reconsideration Motion, - Will Decide On the Written Briefs Alone.
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
AMERANTH - REPLY BRIEF- MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION (P and A) [REDACTED]
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Dominos Opposition to Ameranth's Motion for Reconsideration
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Why Investors are Betting on Hospitality Tech
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Ameranth's Newest '797 Patent Issues - With New Inventive Concepts - Broader Scope And Special Validity Resiliency
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Friday, March 26, 2021
Federal Circuit Denies Another Stanford Genetics Patent Over Alice
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Senators Tillis and Cotton Urge Hirshfeld to Adopt Pilot Program to Address ‘Inherently Vague and Subjective’ Eligibility Analyses
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The letter comes as Tillis has promised to focus more on patent eligibility by bringing it up when confirming former USPTO Andrei Iancu's replacement and by filing amicus briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court. "Our patent eligibility jurisprudence is in shambles," Tillis said at a January event. "The fact that we have courts saying a garage door opener is an abstract idea and that innovative diagnostic tests are just laws of nature is bewildering to me. If we do not provide great clarity and consistency in this area of law, America will lose the 21st century innovation race."
Sens. Asks USPTO To Review '101 Patent Eligibility Last
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Monday, March 22, 2021
Senators Tillis and Cotton Letter to USPTO on '101 Eligibility
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
How to Choose the Next Federal Circuit Judge-Stick with Experience
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Seven Years After Alice, 63.2% of the U.S. Patents Issued in 2020 were Software-Related
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Bipartisan NSCAI Invokes National Security in Calling for Legislation to Clarify 101 Patent Eligibility
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Professors Tell SCOTUS to Correct the CAFC’s ‘Profound Misunderstanding’ in American Axle Case
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
AMERANTH'S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE TO JUDGE SABRAW - CONFIRMING '101 LAW REMAINS 'UNSETTLED'
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Justices Told Fed. Circ. 'Crying Out' For '101 Patent Eligibility Help
"The Federal Circuit sent increasingly blurred messages to litigants and inventors," Ameranth Inc. said in another brief. "Today, when the fate of patent claims worth millions or billions of dollars hang in the balance, the outcome depends on which side of the 6-6 American Axle divide comprises the panel majority in your case. To inventors and litigants, that becomes a very expensive, very perilous coin flip."
Ameranth, which had its own patent invalidated under Section 101, asked, "How can inventors meet a standard that even the ultimate arbiters of patent eligibility cannot articulate and apply uniformly?"
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Monday, March 1, 2021
Ameranth Approved for Strong New Hospitality - Parallel Processing Based Mobile Device Patent, Including First Ever ‘Non Hospitality’ Claims i.e. Now Also Including The ‘Appointments’ Market.
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Ameranth Files Strong New Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support Of American Axle Petition and ‘101 Law Problems And Which Was Joined By Four More Concurrent Amicus Briefs, By Renowned Leaders Of the Patent World.
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Ameranth is a small development company founded 25 years ago and still led by its principal inventor. It has seen long issued and successfully licensed patents, representing true innovation that the industry recognized, retroactively eviscerated under standards and procedures recently created by district courts and the Federal Circuit. When first introduced, Ameranth’s inventions for mobile-wireless ordering and payment processing in restaurants were hailed as almost like science fiction and “poised to become the industry standard.” Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan, Market Busters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth, Harvard Bus. School Press 34-35 (2004). See 4 Wireless Finds a Welcome in Hospitality, Bloomberg Businessweek (Feb. 8, 2004), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-02-08/wireless-finds-a-welcome-in-hospitality (“not quite Star Trek”). Key luminaries in the field recognized Ameranth’s scientific achievements. In nominating Ameranth for one on the many honors it was awarded, Bill Gates put it succinctly: “Ameranth is one of the leading pioneers of the information technology age for the betterment of mankind.” CISION PR Newswire, “Ameranth Significantly Expands Enforcement of Its Patented 21st Century Communications™ Web/Wireless Data/Display Synchronization Inventions,” (July 2 2012), https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ameranth-significantly-expandsenforcement-of-its-patented-21st-centurycommunications-webwireless-datadisplaysynchronization-inventions-161049605.html. Numerous patents issued. Ameranth’s inventions began to revolutionize the restaurant and hospitality industries. But years later, innovations that leading minds with keen understanding of the relevant science had lauded as pioneering technology were deemed by courts applying new standards of patent eligibility to be merely conventional and invalid. The world of innovation and invention changed when the Federal Circuit started interpreting this Court’s §101 decisions, especially Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208 (2014). Pioneering inventions that had been—and should have continued to be—protected by their duly issued patents became vulnerable to claims of invalidity. Scientific advances 5 praised as breakthroughs by the most knowledgeable people in their fields were now subject to losing patent protection as alleged mere abstractions. Often, that protection was lost. Too often.
2004 Business Week Article
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2005 Harvard Business Book Review Excerpt -MarketBusters
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Biotechnology Innovation Organization and AUTM,- Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of American Axle
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Jeremy Doerre - Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of American Axle
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Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin and Peter S. Menell - Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of American Axle
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United States Senator Thom Tillis, Honorable Paul R. Michel and Honorable David J. Kappos - Amicus Brief in Support of American Axle
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US Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Arthrex Cert Appeal to Determine if the IPR/CBM’s - Used Against Ameranth and Others Were Unconstitutional
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Arthrex - Supreme Court - Argument Preview - United States v. Arthrex, Inc.
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Arthrex - Supreme Court - Meet The Supreme Court Heavyweights Arguing Arthrex
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Arthrex —Supreme Court - Was the PTAB [Used in CBM's against Ameranth] - Unconstitutionally Appointed
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Arthrex - Supreme Court - Argument Preview - United States v. Arthrex, Inc.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Ameranth Files Strong Request for Reconsideration of Unfair and Unjust Domino’s Exceptional Case Ruling
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INTRODUCTION: Plaintiff Ameranth, Inc., respectfully requests reconsideration of the Court’s February 5, 2021 Order Granting in Part Defendants’ Second Renewed Motion to Declare Case Exceptional and Award Attorney Fees and Non-Taxable Costs (the “Order”). This Motion is brought on the grounds that reconsideration is justified to correct multiple manifest errors of law and fact upon which the Order is based in order to prevent serious injustice, as discussed herein.
OVERVIEW: An exceptional case determination must be made in consideration of “the totality of the circumstances ….” Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc., 572 U.S. 545, 554 (2014). This encompasses considerations of both law and fact. The Order, however, is based on conclusions contrary to controlling law and overlooks or disregards material facts, meriting reconsideration.
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Order Staying-Deferring Cases, Pending Expected US Supreme Court, American Axle Cert Review
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‘Moreover, currently awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court on a petition for certiorari that may greatly alter the landscape of §101 challenges. As noted in a concurrence by Judge Moore on a motion to stay issuance of the mandate critical of the current state of §101 challenges, “Such a rejection of the plain language of the patent statute in favor of a vast and amorphous judicial exception in which we Federal Circuit judges get to decide de novo not just the legal principles, but the application of the science itself, cannot stand. American Axle has established a fair probability that the Supreme Court will reverse.” Am. Axle & Mfg., Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, 977 F.3d 1379, 1383 (Fed. Cir. 2020).’
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
What’s Eligible for a Patent - The Section 101 Muddle Explained
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Set Boundaries on 101 Jurisprudence to Save U.S. Innovation
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Friday, February 5, 2021
American Axle SC Amicus Brief - BRIEF FOR THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATON
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"The court’s rulings on patent eligibility have become so diverse and unpredictable as to have a serious effect on the innovation incentive in all fields of technology. The victim is not only this inventor of this now-copied improvement in driveshafts for automotive vehicles; the victims are the national interest in an innovative industrial economy, and the public interest in the fruits of technological advance . . . . It is essential to restore the incentive role of the system of patents, for technology is the foundation of the nation’s economy, trade, and strength. Axle III, 966 F.3d at 1357 (Newman, J., dissenting). Judge Newman’s concerns mirror those of stakeholders throughout the innovation economy, and highlight the importance of this Court granting certiorari in order to clarify the scope of patent eligible subject matter and correct the Federal Circuit’s further expansions and unpredictability in this regard."
Thursday, February 4, 2021
ORDER GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE MOTION FOR ENTRY OF DEFAULT JUDGMENT PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. PROC. 55(b)(2) AND CIVIL LOCAL RULE 55.1
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American Axle, SC Amicus - BRIEF OF THE CHICAGO PATENT ATTORNEYS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS
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“The deep divide in the Federal Circuit over how to properly apply this Court’s patent eligibility test and that court’s plea for guidance demonstrate that this issue will not be resolved without direct intervention by this Court. Accordingly, the amici curiae urge this Court to grant American Axle’s petition for a writ of certiorari.” “II. The Federal Circuit’s Misapplication of the Alice/ Mayo Framework Would Render Invalid Patents that have Stood as Pillars of Technological Innovation A. Bell’s Telegraphy Patent would have been Considered Invalid under Recent Federal Circuit Application of § 101. B. Edison’s Light Bulb Patent would have been Considered Invalid Under Recent Federal Circuit Application of § 101.”
Monday, February 1, 2021
Ameranth - Splickit - 46 - REQ FOR EXT TO FILE MTN FOR DEFAULT
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Friday, January 29, 2021
Ameranth - Splickit - Default Judgement
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Friday, January 29, 2021
American Axle, SC Amicus BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE ALLIANCE OF US STARTUPS AND INVENTORS
"The Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs (“USIJ”) submits this brief as amicus curiae pursuant to Rule 37 in support of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari by American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., et. al., seeking this Court’s clarification as to what was intended in its Mayo and Alice decisions. The decision of the Federal Circuit in the instant case, if left unaddressed by this Court, will add further confusion to a body of jurisprudence that already has proven to be difficult if not wholly impenetrable for courts to apply with any rationality, predictability or consistency. It is crucially important that this Court grant the petition and review the decision and opinion of the panel majority below."
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Increasing Likelihood of SC Cert Appeal Being Granted - Justices Seek Response In American Axle's IP Eligibility Row
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
NYIPLA Amicus Brief in American Axle Urges Supreme Court to Return to Its Precedent in Diehr
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Monday, January 25, 2021
Supreme Court -American Axle - Appeal - NYIPLA Amicus Brief - Supporting Petition
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Iancu Resigns As USPTO Director, Urges Eligibility Reform
"We know that this issue is solvable," Iancu said. "We have shown the path, or a path, here at the USPTO. The most important technologies of the future are being impacted, including diagnostics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, digital processing and many more. We must resolve this issue, and we must resolve it now. If not, we risk our nation being left behind as others fortify their IP laws and race toward technological dominance."
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Will 2021 Be the Year the U.S. Supreme Court Again Addresses Section 101 Eligibility
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Thursday, January 7, 2021
DNA IP - 101 Ruling Creates 'Serious Ethical' Issues, Supreme Court Justices Told
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Supreme Court - Ariosa '101 Cert Appeal Petition
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Monday, January 5, 2021
American Axle Implores High Court to Take Up Eligibility Fight
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American Axle Pleads With Supreme Court Justices For Eligibility Clarity
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Snapizzi Gets Caught in the Section 101 Snare
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Monday, December 28, 2020
Federal Circuit Reflections, 2020: The Good And (Mostly) Bad -- Judge Michel - {Ret}
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American Axle Supreme Court Appeal {As To Similar '101 Issues To Ameranth}, filed And: Hoped To Lead To A Supreme Court Correction of '101 Law Flaws By Summer 2021- (Ameranth Will Soon File Supporting Amicus Brief)
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Ameranth FC Appeal Of 'Error-Filled Rejection' Of It's '651 Patent Claims: Anticipated To Lead To Total Reversal/Correction By Fall 2021
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
Ameranth Files Patent Application 17/086,181 With the USPTO For the First Of Its Planned New Family Of Patents "An Intelligent Web Server With Multi-modes of contact, Multi-communications protocols, Multi-user And Parallel Operational Capabilities For Use In A Hospitality Market." Anticipated Patent Term Coverage Through 2026+.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Judge Sabraw - 1491 - Order Continuing Stay
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
"Dozens of Patent Claims Remain Valid Across Ameranth's Three '077,'060,'651 patents; a Fourth Patent Allowance With 20 Additional Claims is Expected Soon And A Fifth Patent For Late 2021 Is Also Expected."
Even Just A Single Infringed Claim Leads To Major Patentee Trial Victory
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Supreme Court Skips Patent Eligibility In Garage Door Case
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8 More IP Cases The Supreme Court Justices Rejected At 1st Conference
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AMERANTH, INC.’S NOTICE OF SUPREME COURT RULING TO JUDGE SABRAW
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
'Long conference' may signal direction of post-Ginsburg court
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Lessons From a Quantitative Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Section 101 Decisions Since Alice
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Chamberlain - Supreme Court Reply Brief, (on '101) - Citing to American Axle
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Justices Urged To Look At 'Unfairness' In Domino's Patent Win
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Ameranth Supplemental Appeal Brief To The US Supreme Court
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Federal Circuit Narrows its Prior Decision; Court is Still Torn on Section 101 Patent Eligibility
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Driveshaft Case Brings More Confusion To Patent Eligibility
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Monday, August 3, 2020
Guest Post – Patent Eligibility from Mayo to American Axle and Beyond
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
American Axle - Driveshaft Patent Eligibility Has Full Fed. Circuit Bitterly Split
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American Axle - 18-1763.OPINION
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American Axle - 18-1763.ORDER.7-31-2020
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American Axle - 18-1763.ORDER.7-31-2020
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Ex-Fed. Circ. Chief Tells Justices Alice Is Scalpel, Not Hammer
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Supreme Court, Chamberlain '101 Amicus Brief
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
It Is Time to Fix the Courts’ Section 101 Tests on ‘Directed to …’ and ‘Abstract Ideas’—Whether in Chamberlain or Beyond (Part I)
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Friday, June 5, 2020
Domino's Patent Win 'Profoundly Wrong,' Justices Told
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Ameranth - US Supreme Court - Petition For Writ of Certiorari
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Chamberlain Petitions SCOTUS to Review CAFC’s ‘Refusal to Assess Claims as a Whole’ in Garage Door Opener Case
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
A Patent Emergency - Chamberlain Files Petition to US Supreme Court
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Chamberlain - US Supreme Court Cert Petition
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Ericsson v. TCL Lays Bare the Federal Circuit’s Fundamental Hostility to Patents
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
‘Ameranth Inc. Initiates Enforcement Of The ‘IAA Innovations’ - (Disclosed/Claimed In Its Latest ‘651 Patent), against OLO Inc. And Its 100,000+ Restaurant Customer Integrations.’
Ameranth's OLO 'Patent Infringement Complaint'
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Ameranth's '651 'Patent'
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Ameranth's '651 'Patent Expert Declaration'
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Sunday, April 12, 2020
Pandemics and the Need for U.S. Patent Laws That ‘Promote … Progress’ and Invention: The Federal Circuit, En Banc, Can Fix This
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects 3 More Alice Patent Appeals
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Friday, March 20, 2020
'US Supreme Court, To Review Two Additional Pending Appeals - (Based Upon the Confusion with '101 Patent Law'), to decide, In Conference - to determine, which, if any to accept -- with Rulings Expected by Oct 2020.'
Thursday, March 19, 2020
US Supreme Court - Miscellaneous Order As to Impacts of COVID 19 Virus
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Judge Paul Michel to Patent Masters Attendees: It’s Time to Wake Up to Preserve Our Patent System
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Major $$ Patent Battles - [Like Ameranth's] - [Take Considerable Time], Yet Justice Eventually Prevails - As It Did With VirnetX
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
Judge Sabraw Order Staying All Cases Pending Supreme Court Decision
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Monday, February 24, 2020
'Supreme Court Denies, an additional '101 Appeal.'
Friday, February 21, 2020
'Hearing with Judge Sabraw in SDCA - To Determine The Schedule/Timeline for Moving Forward With Ameranth's 30 San Diego Patent Infringement Cases.' (Ruling expected mid March)
Friday, February 21, 2020
'US Supreme Court, To Review Two Additional Pending Appeals - (Based Upon the Confusion with '101 Patent Law'), to decide, In Conference - to determine, which, if any to accept during their 2019/2020 Term, -- with Rulings Expected NLT June 2020.'
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Supreme Court Justices Asked Yet Again To Clarify Alice In $4M US Bank Suit
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Supreme Court - Cert Appeal, Solutran v, Elavon
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Congress Isn't Giving Up On Patent Eligibility Fix, Rep. Says
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
USPTO Director Iancu Touts 'Vibrant' US Patent System Despite Criticisms
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
A Window is Open to Save U.S. Patents—Don’t Let it Slam Shut
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Monday, January 27, 2020
Supreme Court Denies Trading Technologies, ChargePoint Petitions
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Monday, January 27, 2020
$85.23 million for WiLAN against Apple
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Friday, January 24, 2020
'US Supreme Court, To Review Three Additional Pending Appeals - (Based Upon the Confusion with '101 Patent Law'), to decide, In Conference - to determine, which, if any to accept during their 2019/2020 Term, -- with Rulings Expected NLT June 2020.'
Monday, January 20, 2020
Reflections on Denial of Cert in Athena Diagnostics
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
'The Supreme Court is More Interested in Being Right Than Shedding Light on 101'
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Monday, January 13, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects 10 Patent Cases
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Views from the Top - IP Leaders Sound Off on Supreme Court’s Refusal to Wade into Patent Eligibility Debate
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Supreme Court Certiorari Denied in Eligibility Cases
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Supreme Court declines to consider medical diagnostic patents
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'US Supreme Court Expected to Announce Which Appeals That It Will Review And Rule On - (by May/June 2020) - To Resolve The Widely Acknowledged Problems And Confusion with '101 Patent Law'
Friday, January 10, 2020
'US Supreme Court, Reviews Six Already Pending Appeals - (Based Upon the Confusion with '101 Patent Law'), to decide, In Conference - which ones to accept during their 2019/2020 Term, -- with Rulings Expected NLT June 2020.'
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Medical testing sector awaits Supreme Court clarity on patents
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Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google
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Ladders of Abstraction - How Many Rungs To The Abstraction?
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Maxell v. Fandango, Supreme Court Petition on '101
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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review Nix Of 23andMe Patent
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Federal Circuit Rejection of '23 And Me', En Banc Petition
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'Indefensible' Patent Eligibility Rule Must Go, Justices Told
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Supreme Court Reply Brief on '101 Law, Trading Technologies
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No Fed. Circ. Revival For TeleSign Patents Axed Under Alice
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Full Fed. Circ. Won't Take Up Menu Patent Fight
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Monday, January 6, 2020
"Ameranth still strongly believes in the merits of its petition and will be timely petitioning the Supreme Court to correct the errors and confusion from Section 101 law, which both the Federal Circuit itself and the U.S. solicitor general believe is urgently needed."

"6/18 claims of the '077 Patent, 23/23 claims of the '060 Patent and 11/11 of the '651 Patent Remain Valid."

Federal Circuit Denial of Ameranth's En Banc Petition
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Patent Cases To Watch In 2020
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Sunday, December 22, 2019
Amici Urge CAFC to Grant En Banc Review in American Axle Case
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
New Bill Aims To Strengthen Patents Owned By Inventors
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
New Bill - Draft, Inventor Rights Act
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
US Solicitor General On Patent Eligibility
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Fed. Circ. Won't Revisit Alice Ax Senator Called 'Madness'
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Five Years Later, the U.S. Patent System is Still Turning Gold to Lead
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Validity Goulash Functional Claim Language, Patent Eligibility, and American Axel - Pick-up Truck Drive Shafts
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Friday, December 13, 2019
Former Chief Federal Circuit Judge Michel Says American Axel Drive Shaft Ruling Puts All Patents In Jeopardy
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Monday, December 9, 2019
US Solicitor General - SG - Says Supreme Court Justices Should Use Athena Case To Redo Mayo on '101 Issues
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Fed. Circ. Overstepped In Menu Patent Fight, Full Court Told
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Monday, December 2, 2019
Ameranth Files Its Appeal to the Full FC En Banc Panel Of the Federal Circuit - (Similar Issues as to '101 errors/problems as in American Axle's En Banc Appeal)
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Either The Supreme Court Or The Congress Is Expected to Correct the Flaws In The '101 Law by Next Spring And Thus Nullify, the Domino's-Ameranth Nov 1, 2019 FC Ruling.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Supreme Court Has 'No Work' To Do On Mayo, Clinic Says
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Sunday, November 24, 2019
Mayo Responds to Athena’s High Court Petition - Nothing to Do Here, SCOTUS.
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Blurred Lines In Patent Eligibility Analyses
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fed. Circ. Ruling May Affect Eligibility Of Life Sciences Patents
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Drive Shaft Ruling Undermines IP Eligibility, Fed. Circ. Told
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Monday, November 18, 2019
American Axle Appeal Petition for FC Rehearing and En Banc
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
The Search for the 'Inventive Concept' and Other Snipe Hunts
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
- Ameranth Will Appeal The Partially Adverse FC '3-Judge' Panel Ruling to the Full En Banc FC Judges In December - With The En Banc Ruling Expected in March 2020

- If necessary; Ameranth Will Then Further Appeal to the US Supreme Court - To Overturn this Ruling Based upon the Widely Vilified '101 'Abstractness' Law.

- Three Judge FC Panel Ruled 12/18 '077 Claims To Be Allegedly Conventional And Thus 'Ineligible' - Despite acknowledging that Microsoft Deemed Ameranth's Inventions To Be 'Innovative' And 'Groundbreaking' At The Time Of The Invention, In 1999.

- 6/16 claims of the '077 Patent, 23/23 Claims of the '060 Patent and 11/11 of the'651 Patent Remain Valid

- All restaurant/hotel reservations - ‘travel aggregator’ and ‘event ticketing’ claims remain valid.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The Final Plea for 101 Sanity - Athena Amici Ask Supreme Court to Clean Up U.S. Patent Eligibility Mess
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Monday, November 4, 2019
Fed. Circ. Largely Clears Axing Menu Patent In Domino's Fight
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Monday, November 4, 2019
FC -- Domino's v. Ameranth - 19-1141.Opinion.11-1-2019
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Monday, November 4, 2019
Ex-Fed. Circ. Judge Decries 'Fundamental Rift' Over Eligibility
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Trading Technologies, ChargePoint Ask High Court for Help with Federal Circuit’s Conflicted Approach to Patent Eligibility
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Apple Pay surpasses Starbucks as top mobile payment app in US
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Drive Shaft Ruling May Expand Challenges To Patent Eligibility
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Chamberlain Petitions Full Federal Circuit to Correct Appellate Overstep on Patent Eligibility
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Friday, October 18, 2019
US Inventor Files Amicus Brief Supporting The US Supreme Court to Correct '101 Eligibility Law for Software Based Patents
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
DoorDash Extends Lead Over Grubhub
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Fed. Circ. Quarrel Highlights Need For Patent Eligibility Clarity
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Friday, October 11, 2019
A Federal Circuit Quarrel - Patent Eligibility, Enablement And A Fiery Dissent
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Friday, October 4, 2019
Federal Circuit Hears Oral Argument - Can Unasserted Claims Of A Patent Be Invalidated Under Section 101

"On appeal, Ameranth argued not only that the district court's decision was improperly decided on the merits, but also that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to declare invalid any patent claims other than the five that were being asserted against Domino's at the time of the motion."

"As for the three claims that had only been asserted against Pizza Hut, after pointed questioning, Domino's counsel ultimately conceded that those three claims should not have been part of the district court's judgment."
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Friday, October 4, 2019
GOP Rep. Blasts 'Unthinkable' Fed. Circ. Drive Shaft IP Ruling
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Friday, October 4, 2019
CAFC Rejects Method for Manufacturing Propshafts Under 101; Judge Moore Calls Majority Analysis ‘Validity Goulash’
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
Will SCOTUS Solve the Section 101 Problem with Athena - These Patent Attorneys Hope So
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
Athena Implores Supreme Court to Heed Federal Circuit’s ‘Unprecedented Cry for Help’
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'Intelligent Automated Assistant' (IAA) Technology Continues To Gain Market Adoption - With Explosive Growth in 2020+ Envisioned
MEET SAY2EAT
Imagine being able to order your favorite foods…through any digital platform you want. Say2eat is making that a reality by syncing restaurants’ existing online ordering system to other platforms like Messenger, Slack, iMessage and more, so consumers can place orders easily. With the added chatbot, ordering food is not just easier for customers, but also increases engagement with the brand. As research has found that millennials prefer messaging as a way to communicate with businesses and brands, it is important for places like restaurants to meet these consumers where they are. Don’t be surprised to see more and more of your favorite restaurants hop on the chatbot train in the coming years!
Watch CEO & Co-Founder Li-ran Navon explain how it works:
https://www.say2eat.com/
http://embracethemachine.com/2018/03/25/say2eat/
Wednesday, Oct 2, 2019
Google-Olo partnership makes ordering as easy as a Google voice search
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Wednesday, Oct 2, 2019
Cloosiv raises $1M to bring mobile ordering to every coffee shop
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Wednesday, Oct 2, 2019
Olo Powers Restaurant Order-Ahead From Google Maps, Search, Assistant
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Monday, September 30, 2019
MEDALLIA ACQUIRES MULTI-CHANNEL MOBILE MESSAGING AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY ZINGLE
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Uber marries food delivery, ride-sharing apps to boost customer base
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
A Strange Evolution - The Federal Circuit Has Entered the Theater of the Absurd
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
USPTO Director Iancu touts-patent-eligibility-guidance-that-just-works
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Sunday, September 22, 2019
USPTO Director Iancu Calls for Section 101 Fix in Address to AIPPI Congress
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
Congress Finalizing Bilateral Patent Reform Bill on '101 Eligibility
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Sunday, September 8, 2019
Preserving Due Process in Approaches to Narrowing Claims in Multi-Patent Lawsuits
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Big Restaurants Seeing Delivery as a Pillar, not a Hurdle
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Congress Must Stop The Erosion Of Patent Rights
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Thursday, August 15, 2019
Food Delivery Apps Are In A Race For Orders, Putting Uber And Grubhub Stock On Defensive
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
The United States broken patent system is getting worse
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Ex-USPTO Directors, Judges Back Patent Eligibility Overhaul
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Patent Eligibility Letter to Congress
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Federal Circuit Appeal - 038-00 Ameranth v Domino's - Notice of Oral Argument for September 5, 2019
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Brightloom Integration with Starbucks Mobile Technology +Rebrand From Eatsa, July 22, 2019
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Monday, July 8, 2019
Athena v. Mayo - A Splintered Federal Circuit Invites Supreme Court or Congress to Step Up On 101 Chaos
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Good news for Uber and Grubhub - Food delivery app usage will near 40 million in 2019
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Uber Eats invades restaurants with Dine-In option
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Software Based Patents Are Critical To The Future of the US
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
As Congress Contemplates Curbing Alice, More Than 60% of Issued U.S. Patents are Software Related
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Monday, July 1, 2019
Federal Circuit Cellspin Ruling Provides Important Clarifications on Aatrix and Berkheimer
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Monday, July 1, 2019
Fed. Circ. Ruling May Mean Higher Bar For Alice Motions
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Sunday, June 30, 2019
Patent Masters Deliver Three Recommendations to Congress on Patent Reform
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Chuck E. Cheese and DoorDash partner to test new ‘Pizza Party Pack’
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Infringer/Defendant OLO Partners with Uber Eats
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
With Uber Eats and Olo partnership, will we finally get rid of back-of-house iPads
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Momentum Toward An Ameranth '101 Appeal Victory Builds - Including a New FC Ruling Confirming That The 'Presumption of Validity' Applies And Which Can Only Be Overcome by 'Clear and Convincing' Evidence - (Standards Now Applicable To Ameranth's Pending Appeal)
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Pharma, Tech Cos. Back Proposal To Expand Patent Eligibility
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Federal Circuit- Precedential Ruling on '101 - Confirming 'Presumption of Validity' and 'Clear and Convincing' Evidentiary Standard
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Monday, June 24, 2019
Letter Supporting Corrections-Amendments to '101 Patent Eligibility Law
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Congress Is Moving Toward A New Law - Correcting The Known Problems in '101 Eligibility', by Fall 2019
Ameranth's Federal Circuit Appeal Hearing on '101 Eligibility', Is Now Expected in Sept/Oct 2019
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Final Panelists at Senate 101 Hearing Stress Real-World Effects of Status Quo, Tillis Signals Changes to Draft Text
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Refined Patent Eligibility Bill Coming This Summer, Sens. Say
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Its time to restore Americas patent system
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Friday, June 7, 2019
How Patent Owners Should Prepare For Eligibility Overhaul
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
Amazon's Alexa will be able to plan your date night by booking tickets, Ubers and dinner
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Sunday, May 26, 2019
DoorDash Is Now Valued At $12.6 Billion Following $600 Million Series G Round
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
Google just made it super easy to order food from DoorDash, Postmates, and other delivery services without using their apps, here's how to do it
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
Which company is winning the food delivery war. Second Measure
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
USPTO Director Iancu Calls on Federal Circuit to Fix Section 101 Problem
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Food Delivery On Demand - Disruptors and Debate
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
AI-powered booking service Google Duplex rolls out to iOS & Android 5.0+ devices
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
Ameranth's Appeal - Reply Brief - Next Step - FC Oral Hearing in DC- Expected in August
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
Domino's Pizza - Opposition Brief to Ameranth's FC Appeal
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Google brings its Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to 43 states
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
DoorDash Is Now Worth Nearly As Much As Grubhub After $400 Million Funding Infusion
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
How Does DoorDash Make Money
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Thursday, February 7, 2019
Postmates IPO - What Investors Need to Know
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
MOBILE APPS NOW REPRESENT THE BULK OF RESTAURANT DIGITAL ORDERS
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
GrubHub's Premium Valuation Hard To Justify Considering Increasing Competition And Margin Contractions
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Is 2019 the Year Clarity Returns to Section 101 - Judge Paul Michel Is Hopeful
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Tuesday, January 2, 2019
Ameranth Will Seek $50M+ From Domino's Pizza - From A Summer 2019 FC Appeal Victory
Tuesday, January 2, 2019
Papa John's Pizza Trial Expected to Follow 1-2 months after Domino's Pizza
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Ameranth Files Strong Federal Circuit '101 Appeal Brief - With Multiple Paths To And Reasons For Victory
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Microsoft - Mr. Doug Dedo Declaration
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Ameranth - Dr. Michael Shamos Expert Declaration
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Symbol - Mr. John Harker Memorandum For Record
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Alice Must Be Revisited In View Of Emerging Technologies
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Study - 66% Of Consumers Find Chatbots Useful In Managing All Travel Arrangements
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Iancu Proposes Overcoming 101 ‘Morass’ by Strictly Following Supreme Court Precedent
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Friday, November 16, 2018
Federal Circuit Reverses Improper '101 Patent Invalidation - Ten Months After Appeal Was Filed
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Ameranth Files Federal Circuit Appeal Docketing Statement
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Judge Sabraw Limits 'Negative '101 Judgement' To Domino's Pizza - Stays All Other Cases - Pending Ameranth's FC Appeal
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Monday, November 1, 2018
Why isn’t Congress Upset about Judicial Exceptions to Patent Eligibility
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Monday, November 1, 2018
Ameranth Inc. v. Dominos Pizza, Federal Circuit Appeal - Docketed
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Ameranth Files Notice Of Appeal To FC Of Domino's Invalidity Ruling, (FC Oral Hearing Expected In August 2019)
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Friday, September 28, 2018
An Abdication of Collective Responsibility by the Federal Circuit
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Menu Patent In Case Against Domino’s, Others Axed By Alice, Law 360.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Ameranth Plans Appeal of District Court's Adverse 101 Ruling of Abstractness and is Confident of Merits.

All '060 and '651 patent claims remain fully valid and enforceable - with additional patents/claims pending.'
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Monday, September 24, 2018
USPTO Director Iancu Wants To Clear Up Uncertainties of 101 Patent Eligibility Of Abstract Ideas
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Saturday, September 1, 2018
Domino's Pizza - Patent Infringement Trial starts 30 days from today in SDCA on October 1, 2018.
Friday, August 3, 2018
Judge Sabraw Issues Final Trial Order For ( Pizza Hut-Quikorder) Trial Commencing, Sept 4, 2018.
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Friday, August 3, 2018
Judge Sabraw Issues Final Trial Order For (Dominos Pizza) Trial Commencing, Oct 1, 2018.
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