The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down many patents on the grounds that they are invalid as directed to an abstract idea, relying on the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. In In re Elbaum ...
In 2014's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case, Justice Thomas famously wrote, "we need not labor to delimit the precise contours of the 'abstract ideas' category in this case." Instead, he found the ...
A suit contending Meta infringed on a social media user identity verification patent was dismissed by a California judge, who concluded the claims were merely abstract ideas. The July 31 opinion, ...
The CAFC today issued two precedential decisions in The Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York v. Gen ...
We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions are a fact of professional life. The law is littered with them. Think of the legislative process, intellectual ...
“The garage-opener case has received its share of attention. But for the patent laws and the country, fixing these crucial tests will be the right attention that it needs to help end the state of a ...
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