Entrepreneur Provides Training for Student Technicians
This Monday John Nappa, entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of CNC Technical Solutions Inc., hosted the Spring 2017 Erie Community College and Genesee Community College Mechatronics Graduation Program, in which CNC Technical Solutions Inc. is partnered. During the graduation, registered patent attorney, Vin LoTempio and other members of the Firm Kloss, Stenger & LoTempio were treated to […]
Post-Bilski Guidelines for USPTO Patent Examiners

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has prepared further interim guidance for the patent examining corps to use when determining subject matter eligibility hof a business method patent application under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in view of the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos (.PDF). This […]
Bilski vs. Kappos Decision

To summarize today’s Supreme Court ruling in Bilski (PDF), business method patents remain viable subject matter and the machine-or-transformation test enunciated as the sole test by the Federal Circuit is not the exclusive test, but merely one tool in the Examiner toolbox. The court affirmed that Bilski’s risk-management method was not patentable subject matter. “Indeed, […]
Business method patents…what will the Supreme Court Do?

On November 9, 2009 the Supreme Court heard an oral argument on the appeal from the Federal Circuit of the case of Bilski v. Kappos, wherein the central issue was whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that a business method patent application based on a “process” must be tied to a particular machine or […]