Justices Deny Patent Appeal That Referenced Newman Suspension

The US Supreme Court rejected a bid to review decisions invalidating a patent owned by a background-check software maker that had argued that an appellate judge’s suspension had hurt its case.

Miller Mendel Inc.'s patent was deemed abstract under Section 101 of the Patent Act under the high court’s two-step patent eligibility test from its 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l., first by an East Texas district court judge and then by a three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The company had sued the small city of Anna, Texas, for ...