The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a deeply divided ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the standard for determining whether certain computed-related inventions deserve patent protection.
In Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, judges on the en banc Federal Circuit issued five separate opinions, none commanding a majority, on how to determine whether a computer-implemented innovation should be viewed as an “abstract idea” that is ineligible for a patent.
