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A look back on 2015

Hoffman Patent Firm continued to explore new frontiers of the judicially crafted exception to patentability known as patent-eligible subject matter. Louis J. Hoffman was particularly active in guiding the national discussion of the USPTO’s reaction new developments in the area

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Patent on a Joke: A serious discussion for April Fools’ Day

I received today a citation to a patent application, US Pat. Pub. 2006/0259306, entitled, “Business Method Protecting Jokes.” This was filed as an international (PCT) application by an English patent attorney, who told an interviewer that his purpose was “to

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Arizona Patent Lawyers Comment on the USPTO’s 2014 Interim Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility

U.S. law regarding what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter has been in flux for some time.1 The issue of what is patent eligible has particular importance to developing technologies, especially the area of computer science. The importance of the issue is

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