First, if the claim is directed to an abstract idea, then abstractness is an essential property of the claimed subject matter as a whole. As such, a claim directed to an abstract idea cannot be ...

Abstractness has been a hot-button issue since 2014, when the Alice Court broadly implemented a two-step test initially directed to claims involving natural phenomena (specifically, the efficacy ...

If the claim is directed to an abstract idea, then abstractness is an essential property of the claimed subject matter as a whole. As such, a claim directed to an abstract idea cannot be ...

If you want to win The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Caption Contest, you’d do well to mind these four factors: novelty, length, punctuation, and “abstractness and imaginability.” Paying attention ...

Existing evidence shows that more abstract mental representations are formed and more abstract language is used to characterize phenomena that are more distant from the self. Yet the precise form of ...