A Northern District of California court dismissed six AI bot patents as ineligible under Alice but spared a seventh — a real-time translation patent — finding its claims specified how a remote server achieves multilingual group communication, rather than merely claiming the abstract idea of translat
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a patent for monitoring vehicles using RFID detection and operator identification is directed to the abstract idea of detecting, transmitting, and processing data, and lacks any inventive concept to survive Alice scrutiny.
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit drew a sharp § 101 line between functional ‘optimization’ claims that recite a result without specifying a concrete configuration and ‘constellation’ claims that recite specific non-uniform point arrangements. It vacated summary
Federal Circuit affirms that two augmented-reality patents asserted against Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite are invalid as abstract ideas under § 101.
The Federal Circuit dismissed a §101 patent eligibility appeal as moot after discovering the parties’ settlement agreement gave the defendant a $100 option to license the challenged patent — an amount so untethered from the patent’s value that it created no real case or controversy.
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
The Federal Circuit denied FullView’s § 1292(b) petition to take an immediate appeal from district court rulings that invalidated some patent claims under § 101 and excluded FullView’s damages expert, leaving both rulings in place until final judgment.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s finding that patent claims directed to operating an information exchange are ineligible abstract ideas under Section 101, holding that generic computing instructions lack an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit vacated a $600 million patent infringement judgment against Norton (Gen Digital), holding that Columbia University’s computer virus-detection patent claims are directed to abstract ideas under Alice Step 1, and denied en banc rehearing.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patents for sharing content using unique identifiers and location data are directed to an abstract idea and lack an inventive concept under Section 101.