The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2014 ruling in Alice v. CLS Bank helped to change the patent litigation landscape, bringing Section 101 defenses—challenging inventions as ineligible for protection under the Patent Act—to the forefront. Alice struck again on Tuesday, when patent licensing giant Intellectual Ventures LLC stumbled on Section 101 in an infringement suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan ruled that three out of of five patents Intellectual Ventures is asserting in the case cover abstract concepts, making the patents invalid under Section 101 and Alice. For example, the judge wrote that one IV patent, related to monitoring computer sites for threats to a protected network, covers “no more than a mental process implemented on generic computer technology.”
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