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22 November 2016Patents

PTAB’s definition of CBM patent makes Congress limits ‘superfluous’

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) interpretation of which patents are subject to covered business method (CBM) reviews renders the limits Congress placed on the definition as “superfluous”.

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