In step one, a court determines whether the claims are “directed to” a patent-ineligible concept, such as an abstract idea. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208, 217 (2014).

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 ...

A claim falls outside of 35 U.S.C § 101 where (1) it is directed to a patent-ineligible concept, i.e., a law of nature, natural phenomenon, or abstract idea, and (2), if so, the particular ...

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.

The origins of the concept A "concept" is a general, abstract idea that the human mind forms about a concrete or abstract object of thought. The term comes from the Latin cum capio: "to grasp together ...

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.

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 ...