ARE Litigation Alert: Federal Circuit Holds Computer-Implemented Financial Transaction Claims Patent-Eligible Because Not Manifestly Abstract

(July 10, 2012)  On July 9. 2012, the Federal Circuit once again considered the question of patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of an invention implemented by computers, and in particular the issue of whether a claimed invention falls within the “abstract ideas” exception to patent-eligibility.  See CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., […]