SAN FRANCISCO — Intellectual Ventures LLC’s $17 million verdict against Symantec Corp. has disappeared in a cloud of Section 101 smoke.

U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark of Delaware ruled Wednesday that two IV patents for sorting and filtering email are drawn to ineligible subject matter. A third patent for screening computer viruses survived Stark’s ruling, but the judge has suggested that the damages for that claim are less than $500,000.

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