The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a patent owner’s challenge of the court’s framework for analyzing potentially abstract ideas not eligible for patent protection, sealing
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in July affirmed the invalidation of a host of claims contained in patents belonging to Impact Engine Inc., which sued the tech titan in 2019.
Impact Engine’s petition argued that the Federal Circuit inappropriately enlarged the abstractness category of inventions considered ineligible under Section 101 of the Patent Act. The appeals …
