Federal Circuit finds software claims patent eligible for fourth time this year

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Federal Circuit finds software claims patent eligible for fourth time this year

November 02 2016
Federal Circuit 165

“There is no such single, succinct, usable definition or test” for defining an abstract idea, the Federal Circuit said while allowing a software patent to survive a Section 101 analysis for the fourth time since May

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