If you are like me, you are probably getting tired of typing out “well-understood, routine, conventional activity.” \u00a0I suspect a new acronym is coming down the pike one of these days. \u00a0“WURCA” seems the obvious choice. “WURACA” if you want to add the grammatically implicit “and.” \u00a0Interesting aside, I believe that WURACA was the Aztec god of patent eligibility.<\/p>\n
By the way, do you find the recent variations in PHOSITA annoying? \u00a0I hear a lot of these variations used during the oral arguments: POSA, POSITA, etc. \u00a0I think I might have even seen or heard OOSITA. \u00a0Why don’t we just stick with PHOSITA . . . and WURCA.<\/p>\n
Acronyms are interesting during oral argument. \u00a0The cynic in me is suspicious that at least one of the judges of the Federal Circuit likes to throw around acronyms when a non-patent lawyer is arguing a patent case or a Supreme Court advocate shows up at the Federal Circuit to argue a patent case. \u00a0Acronyms or abbreviations like ODP, DOE, and even PHOSITA are tricky ones for the uninitiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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