alice-test

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A659 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2025-12-04 Application abstract-idea alice-test mobile-technology patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 Question not identified.
24-827 Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied alice-test claim-construction material-fact patent-eligibility patent-law summary-judgment Whether there is a patent-specific exception to Rule 56, such that courts may grant summary judgment of patent ineligibility despite genuine disputes …
24A517 Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete abstract-idea alice-test electronic-program-guide patent-eligibility section-101 software-patent Whether the Alice two-step test for patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 improperly constrains patent protection for technological innovations in e…
23-1184 Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 alice alice-test computer-network distributed-computing functional-claiming patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 specificity-of-description Whether claims drawn to solving specific problems restricting the usefulness of an existing computer-network technology recite patent-eligible subject…
23-796 Ficep Corporation v. Peddinghaus Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied abstract-idea alice-test automation fact-issues inventiveness manufacturing-process patent-eligibility subject-matter-eligibility technological-improvement technological-innovation Does a claim directed to patent-eligible subject matter (here, manufacturing) nevertheless become ineligible as 'abstract' if the process is improved …
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…
21-1056 Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require 'specificity,' 'unexpected results' and 'unconventionality' in conflict with the Patent Act and …
20-453 Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is directe…
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?
19-852 Maxell, Ltd. v. Fandango Media, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test content-access content-access-control digital-media network-transmission online-streaming patent-eligibility time-controls Whether the claims at issue in Maxell's patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101
19-103 StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. SecureAuth Corporation Federal Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test berkheimer-v-hp federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter step-two-analysis well-understood-routine-and-conventional well-understood-routine-conventional Whether the Federal Circuit conducted the proper analysis under step two of Alice, as this Court will explain it, should certiorari be granted in Berk…
18-770 Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p…
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 Whether an ordered combination of elements in a patent claim is 'well-understood, routine and conventional' to a skilled artisan in the relevant field…