alice-v-cls-bank
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-245 | ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response Waived | alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank biotechnology federal-circuit inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus natural-phenomena patent-eligibility | Whether the two-step Alice/Mayo framework governs the eligibility of patents allegedly directed to natural phenomena. |
| 22-22 | David A. Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-07-07 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) | 35-usc-101 alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-processing luggage-screening patent-claims patent-eligibility physical-steps | Whether the claims at issue in Tropp's patents reciting physical rather than computer-processing steps are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as i… |
| 19-1464 | Christopher Primbas, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank claim-construction inventive-concept parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-office patent-prosecution prior-art | Whether recitation in a patent claim of a combination of steps determined to be inventive over an idea is "sufficient to ensure that the patent in pra… |
| 19-1435 | C. Douglass Thomas v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2020-06-29 | Denied | Response Waived | alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank claim-limitations computer-technology diehr-v-diamond inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus nonobviousness patent-eligibility software-innovation software-patents | 1. Whether software innovations, simply because they are implemented on a general purpose computer, are ineligible for patenting unless they claim som… |
| 19-1017 | Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | alice-test alice-v-cls-bank bilski-v-kappos business-method-patent business-method-patents claim-construction patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility | Does Alice's step one require that the claims be viewed as a whole and that consideration be given to the claimed advance over the prior art? |
| 19-597 | Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 | Whether this case provides an appropriate vehicle for this Court to state with clarity and certainty the definition of an "abstract idea" under 35 U.S… |
| 19-521 | ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | 1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab… |
| 19-43 | Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 | In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014), this Court prescribed standards and a mode of analysis for determining patent eligibil… |
| 18-1199 | InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Amici (8) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption | Does the Federal Circuit's "physical realm" test contravene the Patent Act and this Court's precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patentable … |
| 18-252 | Real Estate Alliance Ltd. v. Move, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-user-interface fact-finding federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law well-understood-routine-and-conventional | Is whether an ordered combination of elements in a patent claim is "well-understood, routine and conventional" to a skilled artisan in the relevant fi… |