ARE Patent Law Alert: In Enfish v. Microsoft, the Federal Circuit Recognizes Limits on Alice as Applied to Computer Software

As previously reported, since the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS, many lower courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) have overzealously applied that decision to improperly invalidate patents on the grounds that they are not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  See, e.g., Time to Correct Section 101 Patent-Eligibility Law in the U.S., LawyerIssue, April […]