Amazon Win Against Patent Lawsuit Appealed to US Supreme Court

A patent owner taking on Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc., and Walmart Inc. is urging the US Supreme Court to undo an appeals court ruling that its patent shouldn’t have been granted in the first place.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in February ruled that “interacting with data objects on the World Wide Web is an abstraction” under the high court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, and Eolas Technologies Inc.’s distributed computing patent covering just that is invalid.

“That conclusion conflicts with Alice and pushes the boundaries of its ‘abstract idea’ ...