Washington and Lee law professor Christopher Seaman recently presented a new research project at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The presentation was part of the Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property co-hosted by Northwestern Law School, Cardozo Law School, and the USPTO on April 29, 2016.
The project is titled Patent Renewal Rates After Alice (with co-author Professor Will Hubbard of Baltimore Law). Professor Seaman and Professor Hubbard propose to study the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), regarding patentable subject matter on previously-issued patents by studying maintenance fee payments (which are required to renew a patent 4, 8, and 12 years after its issuance) between different technological classes.
Abstract: Patent Renewal Rates After Alice
