GoDaddy Patent Win Preserved as High Court Denies Review

GoDaddy.com LLC’s win in a patent infringement lawsuit will stand, after the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 11 rejected a petition to revisit the case.

The internet domain registrar had convinced lower courts that several of RPost Communications Ltd.'s patents related to authenticating and dispatching documents were ineligible for patent protection because they were trying to cover abstract ideas without any inventive concept, which are not patent-eligible.

The petition denial preserves an important defense for accused infringers, especially in cases involving software-related or business method patents.

RPost argued that an attack on a patent’s eligibility can’t be raised as a ...