{"id":8486,"date":"2017-01-07T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2017-01-07T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:39:56","slug":"oral-argument-of-the-week-voxathon-v-fca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8486","title":{"rendered":"Oral argument of the week:  Voxathon v. FCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the week is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Voxathon v. FCA<\/span>, argued on December 5, 2016. \u00a0The oral argument focuses on \u00a7101 issues. \u00a0There was a brief portion of the oral argument where Judge Clevenger took the discussion in the direction of analogizing the abstract idea assessment to an infringement assessment. \u00a0That is something that seems to have gotten lost in the \u00a7101 mess &#8212; claim scope is treated entirely differently for purposes of \u00a7101 than it is for \u00a7\u00a7271 (infringement), 102, or 103. \u00a0To the extent possible, it would be beneficial if the judges of the Federal Circuit would invoke \u00a7271 principles as part of their analyses when evaluating \u00a7101.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the oral argument [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016-16141.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can review the court&#8217;s Rule 36 Judgment [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1614.Rule_36_Judgment.12-8-2016.1.PDF\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the week is Voxathon v. FCA, argued on December 5, 2016. \u00a0The oral argument focuses on \u00a7101 issues. \u00a0There was a brief portion of the oral argument where Judge Clevenger took the discussion in the direction of analogizing the abstract idea assessment to an infringement assessment. \u00a0That is something that seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}