“Universal Secure Registry LLC v Apple Inc, 10 F 4th 1342 (Fed Cir Aug 26, 2021). In this appeal from the District of Delaware, the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding of invalidity for lack of novelty for patents relating to securing electronic payment transactions. A magistrate judge originally determined that the patents were directed to a non-abstract idea, because ‘the plain focus of the claims is on an improvement to computer functionality itself, not on economic or other tasks for which a computer is used in its ordinary capacity’. The district court disagreed, holding that steps one and two of Alice disqualified the patents, as the invention was directed to the abstract idea …”
Lemley, Mark A and Remiker, Erich, Recent Developments in Patent Law 2022 (June 8, 2022).
First posted 2022-06-13 15:45:19
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