The Federal Circuit refused Friday to revive three invalidated patents held by business-analytics firm People.ai Inc., affirming that the technology covering customer account management is abstract.
Writing for a three-judge panel, Judge Tiffany P. Cunningham said each of the patent claims “lacks a redeeming inventive concept.”
“Claims directed to performance of a longstanding manual process on a generic computer may lead to laudable increases in efficiency or accuracy (the exact kinds of improvements computerization is expected to yield in all cases), but lack an inventive concept which might render them patent eligible,” Cunningham wrote.
People.ai’s appeal challenged Northern District of ...
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