SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is not pushing back on the U.S. Supreme Court’s big patent decisions this year, at least not yet.

Having already applied Alice v. CLS Bank to knock out a few software patent claims, the court on Wednesday turned to the Supreme Court’s indefiniteness decision, Nautilus v. Biosig. A panel led by Judge Raymond Chen held much of a patent on Internet pop-up technology invalid as indefinite under Nautilus, handing a partial victory to Google Inc., Apple Inc., Yahoo Inc. and AOL Inc. in a dispute with a company coowned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.

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