Dennis Crouch's Patently-O: Non-Transitory Patent Claims |  |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2015 06:15 AM PDT by Dennis Crouch I was surprised when I ran these numbers and found that 4% of recently issued patents include a non-transitory claim limitation. (95% of these are in what I term computer-related arts). For the most part, these are software patent claims. However, because “software” per se is usually not considered patent eligible, patent attorneys moved toward claiming a computer-readable-medium having the software instructions stored therein. More recently, the PTO concluded that those claims – when broadly interpreted – would encompass transitory signals which are not patent eligible under Section 101. The PTO suggested that applicants amend their claims “by adding the limitation ‘non-transitory’ to the claims.” Open question – how many of these cases have written description support for the new non-transitory limitation?  |
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