Case: Patents/Eligibility (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the decision of a federal district court in Virginia denying Norton’s motion for judgment on the pleadings on eligibility in this action for infringement and correction of inventorship of patents relating to protecting computer systems from viruses and other malicious activity. The appeals court determined that the asserted claims are directed toward the abstract idea of comparing data against a model to determine if it is anomalous, and remanded for the district court to solely consider whether the claimed model of function calls feature was conventional.