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 ...

In 2014's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case, Justice Thomas famously wrote, "we need not labor to delimit the precise contours of the 'abstract ideas' category in this case." Instead, he found the ...

The Federal Circuit’s AI-patent decision this week affirmed a district court’s dismissal of the claims as ineligible, holding that “generic” machine learning technology is itself an abstract idea.

“[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 ...

Recently, the Federal Circuit affirmed a judgment finding patent claims asserted by the patent owner, Interval Licensing, failed to recite patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. See ...