The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down many patents on the grounds that they are invalid as directed to an abstract idea, relying on the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. In In re Elbaum ...

Over a decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court arguably made it easier to invalidate a patent for claiming nonpatentable abstract ideas when it established a two-step test for evaluating whether patent ...

A suit contending Meta infringed on a social media user identity verification patent was dismissed by a California judge, who concluded the claims were merely abstract ideas. The July 31 opinion, ...

If you’re not particularly gifted in the art department, it can be hard enough to draw with a pencil and paper, let alone on a canvas as tiny as your nail bed. That’s why abstract nail art is so great ...

“The unworkable Alice abstract ideas framework divined by the Supreme Court has led to the Federal Circuit developing some corollary doctrines that don’t make sense.” Subject matter eligibility has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 6—A rising influence in the arts community, the Taos Abstract Artists Collective is opening its third annual fall show at the ...