In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, establishing a now-infamous two-step, judicially-imposed test for patent subject-matter eligibility that narrowed ...

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 ...

Abstract ideas, like mathematical formulas, are not patent-eligible. But what happens when such a formula becomes a machine-learning model driving real-world outcomes?

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

The claims in the ‘123 patent entitled “A Construction Vehicle with Dual Electric Battery and Hydrogen Engines” are directed to the abstract idea of applying a force to an object.

On January 24, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held EscapeX IP LLC’s U.S. Patent No. 9,009,113 patent ineligible as being directed to an abstract idea.

News 'Abstract Ideas' Sink Patent Infringement Suit Against Meta A California judge dismissed patent claims against Meta from Street Spirit, which has also sued LinkedIn, Match and eHarmony for ...

"Symbols might be more easily remembered because they give concrete visuals to abstract ideas," said Brady Roberts, lead author and PhD candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of ...

Mad Dogg sued Peloton for infringing interactive exercise-bike patents Mad Dogg's patents relate to abstract ideas, judge says Judge gives Mad Dogg chance to file new complaint (Reuters) - Peloton ...