Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208, was a 2014 United States Supreme Court decision about patent eligibility of business method patents. The issue in the case was whether certain pate
The judges of the Federal Circuit in 2012.
The majority opinion was written by Clarence Thomas.
Sonia Sotomayor in robe, 2009
In United States patent law, the machine-or-transformation test is a test of patent eligibility under which a claim to a process qualifies for consideration if the process is implemented by a particul
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
…perform it with a computer does not change this fact. Free Software Foundation and others argued that no software should be patented unless it passes machine-or-transformation test, as this blocks both innovation and scientific collaboration. IBM disagreed with the "abstract ideas" reasoning and argued that the patent should instead…
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