The National Law Review

What Constitutes an Abstract Idea in Intellectual Property?

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JD Supra

District Court Granted Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because the Patent Was Directed to the Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea of Using Barcodes to Facilitate Bill Payment

A district court in Mississippi recently granted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss computer-implemented claims as patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C § 101. The patent is directed to using ...
JD Supra

Federal Circuit Avoids Abstract Idea Definition, Finds Computer Networking Patents Not Patent-Ineligible Despite Components Appearing “Generic at First Blush”

On November 1, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc., finding that asserted computer program and method claims for solving an accounting and ...
IPWatchdog

In an Abstract Idea Context, Little Is Unmistakably Within the Bright-line Eligibility Prohibition

“[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 ...
IPWatchdog

Federal Circuit: Adding one abstract idea to another abstract idea does not make the claim non-abstract

RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., (Fed. Cir. Apr. 28, 2017) (Before Lourie, Reyna, and Stoll, J.) (Opinion for the court, Reyna, J.) The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision that ...