March 11, 2016
A Federal Circuit panel unanimously affirmed the invalidation of a Web referral system patent nixed under the Supreme Court's Alice standard in a one-sentence order Friday, two days after oral arguments in the case.
March 09, 2016
Federal Circuit judges Wednesday grilled the inventor of a web referral patent nixed under the Supreme Court's Alice decision about whether any aspect of the system could satisfy the high court's standard that patents cannot be granted to abstract concepts.