The US Supreme Court declined to take up a rideshare patent owner’s challenge to the prevailing legal test for determining if a patent is abstract, and therefore invalid.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit misapplied the high court’s test from its 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l when it wiped out claims from a pair of patents allegedly copied by
RDI argued the Federal Circuit and the lower courts have struggled to apply Alice in a consistent manner, and that the Supreme ...