Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Jul. 5, 2018
Resolving the patent eligibility question
As James Madison once said, “It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
Emily Bullis
Associate
Fenwick & West LLP
intellectual property
801 California St
Mountain View , CA 94041
Phone: (650) 335-7632
Fax: (650) 938-5200
Email: ebullis@fenwick.com
Villanova Univ School of Law
Emily Bullis is an intellectual property associate at Fenwick & West LLP
As James Madison once said, "It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so incoherent that they cannot be understood." While Madison wasn't talking about patent eligibility, he might as well have been. Patent practitioners have long appealed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to clarify its answer on the most fundamental of questions: What subject matter qualifies as patent eligible? While the question itself is simple, the answer, even to the most ...
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