The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is often seen as a pro-patentee venue — but not for US Synthetics and its attempts to enforce its patents covering drill bit diamond tips. In its ...

The patent world tends to think that the Supreme Court’s framework in Alice 1 is a template for determining the eligibility of software and business method inventions 2. Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, ...

The Federal Circuit has reversed a controversial ITC decision that had invalidated composition of matter claims as abstract ideas. US Synthetic Corp. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 23-1217 (Fed. Cir. Feb.