A federal judge in New Jersey has dismissed a software company’s patent infringement suit against Kayak Software Corp., which owns the travel search website Kayak.com, finding the concept behind the plaintiff’s quote-generating software was too abstract to be patent-eligible.
The ruling in Source Search Technologies v. Kayak joins a growing list of decisions addressing the developing issue of what makes a technology patentable.
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