On November 1, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc., finding that asserted computer program and method claims for solving an accounting and ...
In 2014's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case, Justice Thomas famously wrote, "we need not labor to delimit the precise contours of the 'abstract ideas' category in this case." Instead, he found the ...
“The courts must review and repair the eligibility law and, in particular, the ‘directed to’ step of the Mayo-Alice test and the definition (or lack thereof) for the judicially made ‘abstract idea’ ...
“The unworkable Alice abstract ideas framework divined by the Supreme Court has led to the Federal Circuit developing some corollary doctrines that don’t make sense.” Subject matter eligibility has ...
The definition of abstract art has no one clear consensus, although expert commentary has weighed in for centuries, from Plato to Pablo Picasso. Some say it began with Stone Age Paleolithic cave art ...
Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...