After a patent case pending since 2015, a Delaware federal judge held that claims directing bit and phase scrambling to reduce peak-to-average power ratio are patent-eligible, but that claims for calculating scrambled phases without applying them are abstract and lack an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit held that a patent covering remote diagnosis and treatment used generic devices to perform an abstract version of an ordinary doctor visit and lacked an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit held that patent claims for repositioning and enforcing digital advertisements recited an abstract data-handling idea implemented with conventional computer components.
Sitting by designation in Delaware, Federal Circuit Judge Bryson denied dismissal on patent eligibility grounds because the complaint plausibly alleged inventive concepts, but dismissed speculative pre-suit knowledge and multi-defendant direct infringement allegations with leave to amend.
The Federal Circuit required a fuller sanctions analysis where multiple pre-suit signals raised serious questions about software-patent eligibility.
The Federal Circuit held that patents combining user history, page context, and ad-performance data claimed an abstract targeted-advertising idea without an inventive concept.
An Eastern District of Texas court let induced-infringement claims over contactless credit-card technology proceed and declined to invalidate five patents under Section 101 at the pleading stage.
The Federal Circuit held object-level profitability claims ineligible because their asserted parallel-processing improvement was not required by the claims.
A California federal court held that two computer-networking and storage patents claimed specific technological improvements and plausibly alleged indirect and willful infringement.
The Federal Circuit held that a district court may decide patent eligibility after finding venue improper when both dismissal grounds were fully presented.
A California federal court held that ShopSee’s patent on layered shopping and social features for streaming video was directed to an abstract idea and lacked an adequately pleaded inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit held that patents for generating and sharing interactive charts claimed an abstract idea without an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit revived a digital-picture-frame claim tied to a physically separate interface while affirming that broader functional display claims were patent-ineligible.
The Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of two Dental Monitoring patents covering deep-learning dental arch image analysis, holding that applying generic machine learning to a new domain — orthodontic imaging — does not supply the “inventive concept” required for patent eligibility under § 101.
A Central District of California judge granted Roland’s motion to dismiss, holding that Behringer parent Empower Tribe’s polyphonic guitar tuner patent claims are directed to an abstract idea and lack the inventive concept needed to survive § 101 scrutiny.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that ClickFunnels’ sales-funnel website creation patents are invalid under § 101, holding that the abstract idea of “filtering information based on user preferences” cannot be rescued by conventional template-selection and sequential-webpage features, while also clarifyi
A Northern California judge denied Uber’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that LBT IP’s GPS location-tracking patents — covering satellite-impaired tracking methods and multi-provider mapping interfaces — are directed to genuine technological improvements rather than abstract ideas und
A North Carolina federal judge dismissed a patent infringement suit against Epic Games (Fortnite) with prejudice, holding that U.S. Patent 10,142,810 — claiming a method for managing communications across services using a single user identifier — was directed to an abstract idea and lacked any inven
A North Carolina federal judge dismissed a patent infringement suit against Epic Games (Fortnite) with prejudice, holding that U.S. Patent 10,142,810 — claiming a method for managing communications across services using a single user identifier — was directed to an abstract idea and lacked any inven
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all four Arendi patents directed to identifying information in a document and searching external databases are patent-ineligible under Section 101, ending a decade-long litigation against Google and Oath (Yahoo).
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all four Arendi patents directed to identifying information in a document and searching external databases are patent-ineligible under Section 101, ending a decade-long litigation against Google and Oath (Yahoo).
In Anonymous Media Research Holdings LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00439 (E.D. Tex.), Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied Samsung’s […]
In Anonymous Media Research Holdings LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00439 (E.D. Tex.), Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied Samsung’s […]
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patents claiming automated farming data collection using generic computer components are directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under Alice, but vacated the district court’s unexplained denial of attorney’s fees and remanded for further proceedings