Google To Federal Circuit: Uphold Patent Board’s Ineligibility Findings

Mealey's (May 10, 2018, 3:46 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 30 appellee brief, Google Inc. urges the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reject a patent owner’s appeal of an adverse covered business method (CBM) review by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board because the patents at issue “are directed to the most abstract of ideas — a way to structure a contract for advertising services” (Performance Pricing Holdings LLC v. Google Inc., No. 18-1189, Fed. Cir.)....