March 25, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
Subject Matter Eligibility Challenges With Requirements for Functional ClaimingSince the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, which effectively put the brakes on securing software patents in the US, patent practitioners have been working to find ways to overcome the bar Alice established for satisfying the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 U.S.C. Section 101.
By Joseph Wolfe and William Bartow
10 minute read