Google Patent Infringement Win Stays as Justices Decline Review

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Federal Circuit’s axing of three patents related to data processing systems on the grounds they were invalid as abstract.

PersonalWeb Technologies LLC argued that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrongly canceled its patents for covering an “abstract idea.” The ruling was a win for Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC, YouTube LLC, Facebook Inc., EMC Corp., and VMware Inc., whom PersonalWeb had sued for infringement.

The Federal Circuit had found that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,802,310; 6,415,280; and 7,949,662 covered functions that could be performed in the human ...