U.S. Supreme Court
Dec. 17, 2013
Abstract idea or real world software solution?
The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a case to address the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions. By Robert R. Sachs
On Dec. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in CLS Bank Intl. v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 717 F.3d 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2013), to address the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions. For some, the issue is emblematic of what they see as the problems resulting from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granting "too many patents" for too trivial of inventions. Others see patent eligibility as the touchstone question f...
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