Source: http://tidge.com/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 08:35:54+00:00

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The Feds have vacated their previous decision CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2012), which was their first decision interpreting the Supremes' March 20, 2012 Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U. S. ___ (2012)—the case where the Supremes clarified that patent claims "must add enough" to natural processes/natural laws in order to be patentable under §101 (subject matter), but failed to clarify how any other court can determine what is "enough." See, e.g., Right Result, Wrong Reason.
The lower court in the CLS Bank appeal had ruled that the computerized trading method, system, and media claims were invalid for failing to claim eligible subject matter. CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp., 768 F. Supp. 2d 221 (D.D.C. 2011). In CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2012), the majority (Linn, author, and O'Malley) of the Federal Circuit 3-person panel reversed the trial court's ruling, holding "that the system, method, and media claims at issue are not drawn to mere 'abstract ideas' but rather are directed to practical applications of invention falling within the categories of patent eligible subject matter defined by 35 U.S.C. §101" (p. 2).
The third judge, Prost, dissented, stating not only that "the asserted patent claims are abstract ideas repackaged as methods and systems," but that the majority was effectively ignoring "the Supreme Court’s unanimous directive to apply the patentable subject matter test with more vigor" (referring to Mayo). CLS Bank Int'l, dissent, pp. 1, 2.
Here's another question one might ask: does this have anything to do with yesterday's N.Y. Times article The Patent, Used as a Sword, making the argument (based, as usual, on anecdotes and one or two "expert" opinions) that the "software patent system ... is so flawed that it often stymies innovation." That article did refer to Judge Richard A. Posner's recent anti-patent decision (dismissing the N.D.Ill. Apple v. Samsung case), recent anti-patent article (Why There Are Too Many Patents in America - The Atlantic - July 12, 2012), and several personal email responses and a telephone interview from Judge Posner himself.
(but you can tell by the "last revised" entry).

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