Bejin Bieneman PLC | Intellectual Property Attorneys

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Bejin Bieneman presents an introduction to IP law at Oakland University Society of Women Engineers and The National Society of Black Engineers

Bejin Bieneman PLC will present an IP law informational event with Oakland University Society of Women Engineers and The National Society of… Read More

Bejin Bieneman PLC Participates in Street Law Diversity Pipeline Program

Southfield, MI – Eighteen students from Southfield High School for Arts and Technology had the opportunity to participate in a workshop fe… Read More

Bejin Bieneman PLC Joins Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women in a Global Day of Service

Worldwide Effort Brings Together Volunteers from the Legal Profession to Support More Than 80 Community-Based Organizations Ford Motor Compa… Read More

Webinars

Software Patents – Going Beyond Alice and Williamson

Jun 18, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time

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The webinar will offer a set of practice tips for drafting software and electronics patent claims not just to avoid legal pitfalls under § 101 and § 112, but to make patent prosecution more efficient, and patent claims stronger. We’ll look not just at Federal Circuit decisions, but also at cases from the PTAB to extract a set of practical guidelines for drafting functional claim language – when functional claiming is unavoidable. Presented by Charles Bieneman

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B2 IP Report

Patent Claims to 3D Virtual Environment Held Ineligible at Pleadings Stage: Barbaro Technologies, LLC v. Niantic Inc.

May 28th, 2020

Patent claims directed to a 3D virtual game environment were held ineligible on a Rule 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the Alice/Mayo test. Barbaro Technologies, LLC v. Niantic Inc., Case No. 18-cv-02955-RS (N.D. Cal. May 21, 2020). The plaintiff had alleged that defendants infringed claims of two patents, U…

On Remand, Software Patents Held Invalid for Lacking Sufficient Factual Allegations

May 26th, 2020

While software patents have recently survived Rule 12 motions to dismiss on the pleadings, a lack of an inventive concept doomed a set of software patents as ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. MyMail Ltd. v. ooVoo, LLC, 17-cv-04487 (N.D. Cal. May 7, 2020). Plaintiff MyMail sued Defendants ooVoo and IAC for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,275,863…

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