The National Law Review

Testing a Patent Claim against an Abstract Idea, in Response to 35 USC §101 Rejection

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IPWatchdog

In an Abstract Idea Context, Little Is Unmistakably Within the Bright-line Eligibility Prohibition

“[I]t seems clear that the Supreme Court did not intend to categorically prohibit patenting of everything which can be characterized as an abstract idea…” This is part two of a three-part article ...
The National Law Review

What Constitutes an Abstract Idea in Intellectual Property?

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'Abstract Ideas' Sink Patent Infringement Suit Against Meta

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, ...
IPWatchdog

Federal Circuit: Adding one abstract idea to another abstract idea does not make the claim non-abstract

RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., (Fed. Cir. Apr. 28, 2017) (Before Lourie, Reyna, and Stoll, J.) (Opinion for the court, Reyna, J.) The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision that ...
Computerworld

Supreme Court: Abstract idea isn’t patentable when tied to a computer

An abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, potentially making it more difficult to patent some software in the future. The ...