The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, establishing a now-infamous two-step, judicially-imposed test for patent subject-matter eligibility that narrowed ...

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down many patents on the grounds that they are invalid as directed to an abstract idea, relying on the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. In In re ...

Abstract ideas, like mathematical formulas, are not patent-eligible. But what happens when such a formula becomes a machine-learning model driving real-world outcomes? This gray area is where AI ...

On January 24, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held EscapeX IP LLC’s U.S. Patent No. 9,009,113 patent ineligible as being directed to an abstract idea. The patent ...

The U.S. District court for the Central District of California granted Covalent, Inc.’s motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6), finding that the claims were directed to the abstract idea of ...

News 'Abstract Ideas' Sink Patent Infringement Suit Against Meta A California judge dismissed patent claims against Meta from Street Spirit, which has also sued LinkedIn, Match and eHarmony for ...

U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky rejected, opens new tab Parse's argument that the patents, related to finding and analyzing genetic information, covered patent-ineligible abstract ideas and ...

The origins of the concept. A "concept" is a general, abstract idea that the human mind forms about a concrete or abstract object of thought.The term comes from the Latin cum capio: "to grasp together ...

"Symbols might be more easily remembered because they give concrete visuals to abstract ideas," said Brady Roberts, lead author and PhD candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of ...