Patenting AI And Machine Learning In The Wake Of Recentive

By Reilley Keane and Kirk Sigmon ( May 20, 2025, 6:09 PM EDT) -- On April 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Recentive Analytics Inc. v. Fox Corp. that "patents that do no more than claim the application of generic machine learning to new data environments, without disclosing improvements to the machine learning models to be applied, are patent ineligible under [35 U.S.C.] § 101."...

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