Cybersecurity Patents Validity Dispute Won’t Go to High Court

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t weigh in on whether claims in Glasswall’s cybersecurity-related patents should have been invalidated for being abstract on a motion to dismiss.

The justices Oct. 7 declined to take up a petition by Glasswall Solutions Limited and Glasswall (IP) Limited to review a ruling canceling claims in U.S. Patent Nos. 8,869,283 and 9,516,045 under Section 101 of the federal law that governs patent eligibility.

The case would have provided the court the chance to “consider under what circumstances a court can disregard a patentee’s factual allegations supporting patent eligibility under Section 101 at the motion to ...