By Melissa Brand & Hans Sauer August 9, 2020 “Ultimately, one is left with a sense that Section 101 has become a hammer that courts are encouraged to try on a variety of problems first, before reaching for the right tools—in this case, the sufficiency of technical teaching, commensurate with claim scope, a quintessential question under Section 112.” In the spring of 2018, a district court invalidated a patent claiming methods of manufacturing a pickup truck drive shaft for failure to recite...
