Biggest “patent troll” slapped down hard by appeals court

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jul 18, 2014 5:50 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin 		Mail this story
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The most litigious "patent troll" in the US has lost a major case after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found its patent was too abstract. The ruling from last week is one of the first to apply new Supreme Court guidance about when ideas are too "abstract" to be patented. In the recent Alice v. CLS Bank case, the high court made clear that adding what amounts to fancy computer language to patents on basic ideas shouldn't hold up in court.

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