alice-test
13 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |