Manufacturing Patents and Patent Eligibility: Recent Court Treatment, USPTO Guidance, Alternatives for Protection
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance on patent eligibility for manufacturing patents. The panel will discuss recent court treatment of Section 101 as applied to manufacturing patents. The panel will also examine the challenges and strategies to overcome them. The panel will discuss practical considerations for patent eligibility, including USPTO guidance and alternatives to patent protection. The panel will offer best practices for protecting methods of manufacturing.
Outline
- Patent eligibility for manufacturing patents
- Court treatment
- Overcoming common challenges
- Practical considerations
- USPTO guidance
- Best practices for protecting methods of manufacturing
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Application of Alice to manufacturing patents
- Recent court treatment, including American Axle and Palomar decisions
- Best practices for protecting methods of manufacturing
Faculty
Dr. Michael S. Borella, Ph.D., J.D.
Partner; Co-Chair Software and Business Methods Practice Group
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
Dr. Borella provides legal and technological advice in support of validity, infringement, patentability analyses, and... | Read More
Dr. Borella provides legal and technological advice in support of validity, infringement, patentability analyses, and litigation matters. His expertise includes networking, internet telephony, wireless communication technologies, telecommunications, financial transactions, cloud computing, routing, TCP/IP, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and imaging, voice and facial recognition, robotics, and mobile applications. Dr. Borella has drafted or been involved in the prosecution of hundreds of patents in the U.S., as well as in other jurisdictions. He has experience in numerous phases of patent litigation, including invalidity analysis, discovery, motion practice, and claim construction. His practice also includes patentability, validity, and infringement analyses, as well as client counseling with respect to the procurement of all types of intellectual property rights. Dr. Borella has written extensively on the patent-eligibility of computer-implemented inventions and has been a featured presenter for several seminars on the topic as well. He is a former adjunct professor at Northwestern University, and has lectured on patent law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Dr. Steven Reid, Ph.D., J.D.
Senior Counsel
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner
Dr. Reid’s practice entails the procurement of patents and related counseling in the chemical arts, particularly... | Read More
Dr. Reid’s practice entails the procurement of patents and related counseling in the chemical arts, particularly in the area of small molecules and pharmaceuticals. He also conducts and advises clients on intellectual property due diligence investigations. Dr. Reid is a former patent examiner in the chemical and pharmaceutical arts for the USPTO. Dr. Reid’s scholarly contributions span eight years of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research, and are published in leading academic journals. Some of his efforts resulted in new synthetic routes to highly reactive organopalladium complexes. Others concerned the development and evaluation of organohafnium complexes as living olefin polymerization catalysts. His forays into bioinorganic chemistry led to several metalloporphyrin derivatives that served as models for intermediates in heme catabolism.
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