Supreme Court Poised To Rewrite Patent Law

Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Federal Circuit, in Medtronic Inc.v. Mirowski Family Ventures LLC. That that may be just the beginning, says Ben M. Davidson, founder of the Davidson Law Group and a former examiner at the USPTO. He notes that in the last four months the Supreme Court has agreed to take up five more cases from the Federal Circuit. He looks at each and offers a prognosis on how the Court is likely to change the patent landscape with regard to awarding of attorney fees and the patent-eligibility of software and other types of patents that have frequently been challenged.