Today we continue our weekly installment highlighting the best of the patent blogosphere from the past week. If there are any patent blogs you think should be highlighted by our Top 5, please comment on this post and we’ll check them out.
1) FOSS Patents: Apple-Samsung Settlement Talks Apparently Ended Without an Agreement – This post discusses how Magistrate Judge Spero of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California entered a minute order for the second day of the Apple-Samsung settlement. The order is silent on the next steps of arbitration.
2) IP Spotlight: Internet Advertising Patent Saga Continues: Supreme Court Orders Federal Circuit to Reconsider Decision in Ultramercial v. Hulu – This post analyzes the decision in Ultramercial v. Hulu and how “the U.S. Supreme Court hinted that a recent decision covering patent-eligibility for medical testing methods is also relevant to Internet-based methods.”
3) Patently-O: Patentable Subject Matter: Supreme Court Challenges Chief Judge Rader’s Broad Notion of Software Patentability – This post takes a look at WIldTangent v. Ultramercial and how Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. impacts the Federal Circuit patentable subject matter decision made prior to Mayo.
4) Patent Docs: USPTO Posts Comments on Genetic Diagnostic Testing – After the USPTO collected information on independent second opinion genetic diagnostic testing for the Office to fulfill its obligations under § 27 of the AIA to prepare a report on genetic diagnostic testing for submission to the Committee of the Judiciary for both the Senate and House, the Office has provided the public with access to comments that were submitted. This post provides information behind the comments received and how readers can access them.
5) Patents Post-Grant: Technical Amendment to America Invents Act – This post reports that the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on the implementation status of the America Invents Act (AIA) discussed possible technical amendments, and shares examples of technical fixes, “that are needed if the legislation is to achieve the goals of the legislature.”
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