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Enfish — Course Correction For 101 Jurisprudence

Law360, New York (June 6, 2016, 11:44 AM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit's Enfish v. Microsoft Corp. case was a long-awaited one that reined in §101 case law. For the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Alice, the Federal Circuit provided direction regarding how to apply the first step in testing for §101 — whether an invention is directed to an abstract idea. In doing so, it held software patents U.S. Patent Nos. 6,151,604 and 6,163,775, ones that claimed a logical structure for data in a computer database, to be not abstract and therefore valid under §101....

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