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The Patent Microcosm is Setting Up a Huge Number of Anti-ۤ 101 Events in an Effort to Thwart Alice and Promote Software Patents

But can money always buy perception?

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Summary: Patent law firms and their front groups are coordinating the dissemination of misinformation by stacked panels in a large number of events or so-called 'webinars'

THE USPTO, according to this, deserves to have quality of patents questioned. They call it the "Patent Quality Chat Webinar Series", but given the entity which organises it, we can expect only the patent microcosm to participate. Also see this promotion of "Patent Eligibility in 2018" by Patently-O (this too is an event for -- and by -- the patent microcosm). They just try to dominate/control the conversation. It's not a real debate; it's about ۤ 101, which is mentioned there explicitly, so it's about software patents and Alice.



"It's not a real debate; it's about €§ 101, which is mentioned there explicitly, so it's about software patents and Alice."Isn't it all just very revealing, with headings and overview text such as "Overview of the most recent Federal Circuit case law regarding Section 101"? It's all about trying to undermine €§ 101 and creating public/Congressional support for that. Even Watchtroll reared its ugly head several hours ago, complaining about €§ 101 using the false pretense that it "Arrests U.S. Progress" (that's the headline). It says that "discovery of GIRK1 as a biomarker for breast cancer diagnostics would run into 35 U.S.C. €§ 101, the basic threshold statute for determining patentability of subject matter, under the Supreme Court’s March 2012 ruling in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc."

So what Watchtroll would rather see is millions of women with breast cancer; just so that the patent maximalists can become richer. Disgusting.

And here's more on ۤ 101. The patent microcosm has become very shameless and blatant about trying to work around/undermine the rules. "Webinar on Drafting Software Patents to Survive ۤ 101 and AIA Challenges" is the title of the following:

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Drafting Software Patents to Survive Section 101 and AIA Challenges -- Anticipating and Minimizing the Risk of 101, 103 Rejections, Recent Court Guidance" on January 23, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Michael L. Kiklis and Stephen G. Kunin of Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustad will provide guidance to patent practitioners on how to draft their patent applications to overcome both ۤ 101 and AIA challenges.


So it's basically a bunch of patent lawyers moaning about ۤ 101. Then there's this new press release about "Artificial Intelligence and The Patent Law" (probably this bunch of lawyers are to speak about how calling software "AI" helps in sneaking software patents into the USPTO).

"So it's basically a bunch of patent lawyers moaning about ۤ 101."Lastly, the front group for patent maximalists (which IBM uses to lobby against ۤ 101 in its current form) is planning another "webiner" (video commercial).

Why are there suddenly so many ۤ 101 events? Because it's the new year? Is there a coordinated effort to stuff the media with anti-ۤ 101 pieces? And anti-Alice? Whatever it is, there's probably plenty of rebuttals (to do) ahead...

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