Since the Federal and Supreme Court rulings in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, et al., we have seen some issued patents invalidated on the grounds of patent-ineligible subject ...
“The courts must review and repair the eligibility law and, in particular, the ‘directed to’ step of the Mayo-Alice test and the definition (or lack thereof) for the judicially made ‘abstract idea’ ...
“[I]t seems clear that the Supreme Court did not intend to categorically prohibit patenting of everything which can be characterized as an abstract idea…” This is part two of a three-part article ...