Celonis Seeks to Knock Out Two SAP Data-Processing Patents

Celonis SE urged a Delaware federal judge to throw out part of SAP SE’s lawsuit over its process-mining software, arguing two asserted data-processing patents should be invalidated because they cover unpatentable mathematical ideas.

SAP’s US Patent Nos. 9,697,254 and 8,996,492 shouldn’t have been issued because they describe routine graph-traversal math performed on generic computers, according to Celonis’ opening brief supporting its partial motion to dismiss filed Jan. 2 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

Celonis argued the asserted claims “attempt to patent the use of mathematics to analyze data, implemented on nothing more than generic computer ...