In Optis, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas analyzed Step One and determined that the patent-at-issue did not recite an abstract idea. On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed that finding and ...

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down many patents on the grounds that they are invalid as directed to an abstract idea, relying on the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. In In re ...

Expert Opinion Navigating the Intersection of AI and Abstract Ideas: The Federal Circuit’s Decision in Recentive and the USPTO’s AI‑Eligibility Guidance 9 minute read May 27, 2025 ...

The guidance explains that courts have been comparing patent claims considered to those previously determined to be directed to abstract ideas, as the Federal Circuit explicitly explained in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that using a computer to implement an abstract idea does not make that invention eligible for a patent. At issue in the case, Alice Corp. v. CLS ...

The bright-line eligibility prohibition was not intended to categorically prohibit patenting of everything which can be characterized as an abstract idea at some level. Although the Court has not ...

But it stretched the meaning of “abstract ideas” so far beyond prior usage that the older cases provide little help in discerning what the Court now thinks it means. Both Bilski and Alice recite the ...