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 ...

Over a decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court arguably made it easier to invalidate a patent for claiming nonpatentable abstract ideas when it established a two-step test for evaluating whether patent ...

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, ...

Oct. 6—A rising influence in the arts community, the Taos Abstract Artists Collective is opening its third annual fall show at the Taos Center for the Arts. Slated for Friday, Oct. 11, through ...

“At Alice step one, the CAFC found that the claim language itself did not mesh with directPacket’s arguments for eligibility, concluding that ‘the claim says little ‘of how the purported invention ...

“The unworkable Alice abstract ideas framework divined by the Supreme Court has led to the Federal Circuit developing some corollary doctrines that don’t make sense.” Subject matter eligibility has ...