Perspective
Sep. 22, 2016
Northern California continues to be inhospitable towards software patents
A recent case continues the Northern District's reputation as being hostile to software patents by striking down a patent bringing caller ID to mobile phones. By Gabriel Ramsey and Will Melehani
Software patents have been at risk ever since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 decision of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l. Recent decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit were expected by some to narrow district courts' broad applications of Alice and its progeny against software patents. However, patentees in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California continue...
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