Patent Owner Challenges Alice Eligibility Test at High Court

Nov. 15, 2023, 9:34 PM UTC

A non-practicing entity that has asserted data-compression patents against upwards of 90 companies, petitioned the the US Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that made its patents ineligible for protection because they are too abstract.

Realtime Data LLC’s petition for high court review argues the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and lower courts improperly broadened a judge-made exception to the rule that new ideas are eligible for patent protection.

Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly of the US District Court for the District of Delaware dismissed Realtime Data LLC’s suits in 2021 after finding the company’s patents were ...

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