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 ...

An abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, potentially making it more difficult to patent some software in the future.

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 ...

The patent eligibility exception of 35 U.S.C. § 101 for abstract ideas is such an implicit statutory exception, as the Supreme Court made clear in noting that it has “long held that th [e ...