In a unanimous decision on June 19, 2014 authored by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Intl. held that an abstract idea did not become patent-eligible simply by performing ...

The Supreme Court yesterday issued its long-awaited decision in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International addressing the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions under 35 USC §101. The ...

“While it is true that the software may be abstract, if it is considered to be a computer-implemented invention, it is bound to produce a technical effect, or as we call it in our guidelines, a ...