SAN FRANCISCO — A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit threw out a $30 million judgment against Google Inc. on Friday, saying an IP monetization company’s patents on web search technology should have been deemed obvious as a matter of common sense.
A concurring judge singled it out as the kind of software technology case that should never go before a jury in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank.
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