Google Wins Another Chance at Challenging IPA’s Software Patents

Google LLC won its bid to reopen administrative reviews of patents covering software communication and cooperation structures as the Federal Circuit provided some clarity on how to establish who invented the patented innovation.

Finding that an expert has an authorship contribution on a patent can provide corroborating evidence that the person was an inventor, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Thursday in a precedential opinion. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly disregarded the testimony of Dr. Douglas B. Moran, who a three-judge panel said supplied enough evidence at least to support his assertions that ...