“When ‘determining whether software limitations like those at issue here recite sufficient structure, we can look beyond the initial ‘code’ or ‘application’ term to the functional language to see if a ...

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.

“Enfish indicates that the pendulum may be swinging too far against the practice of functional claiming at the expense of the policy behind this rule.” A single means claim is a claim with a single ...