“In the context of software applications, the dichotomy between patentable concrete ideas and unpatentable abstract ideas typically turns on whether the patent is directed to ‘an improvement in the functioning of a computer,’ which is patentable," said Judge Sean Jordan, who ruled this claim was not.
April 07, 2021 at 11:12 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
A Munck Wilson Mandala IP team has secured a rare invalidation of a patent in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas.
The winning lawyers persuaded Judge Sean Jordan to dismiss an infringement claim on the basis that it was made for an “abstract concept” for organizing a “longstanding human activity” that was “not patentable.”
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