PatentNext Takeaway: In Applications in Internet Time, LLC v. Salesforce, Inc., the Federal Circuit provided a useful reminder for drafting AI-related patent claims: dependent claims can help preserve broader independent-claim scope where the dependent claims separately recite narrower AI or agent-based implementations.
Although Applications in Internet Time was not a generative AI case, its
PatentNext Summary: As a general rule, software-related patents should include an algorithm. An algorithm provides support for a software-related patent in a variety of ways, one of which is to provide support for a claim determined to be a “means-plus-function” (MPF) term pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 112(f). Without such support, an MPF term can be held invalid.
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