The Federal Circuit invalidated a pair of
The court on Tuesday backed a judge in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington who determined in March 2022 that IBM’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,778,193 and 6,785,676—which describe an improved user interface for search queries—covered abstract ideas and thus aren’t patent eligible.
“The claims of the ’193 patent do nothing more than improve a user’s experience while using a computer application and are precisely the types of claims that we have held ...
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