Case: Patents/Eligibility (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of a federal district court in Delaware that WhitServe LLC’s data storage patent is invalid because it covers ineligible subject matter, in WhitServe’s patent infringement action against Dropbox Inc. WhitServe sued Dropbox for infringing its patent on a system for backing up data records on a user’s local computer, but the Federal Circuit ruled that the patent covers the abstract idea of maintaining data records. And the court determined that whether the records are stored on-site instead of off-site does not supply an inventive concept that transforms the abstract idea into a patent-eligible application. ...