Patent Subject Matter Eligibility

The District of Delaware dismissed an Australian fintech company’s patent infringement suit against JPMorgan, holding that a blockchain-based financial transaction processing patent is directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under Section 101.

A Delaware federal judge granted Google summary judgment on the last remaining claim of B.E. Technology’s targeted advertising patent, finding Claim 25 of U.S. Patent No. 8,769,440 directed to the abstract idea of providing real-time targeted advertising and lacking any inventive concept under