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Alice: The Status Quo Or Total Chaos?, Matthew Moldovanyi
Alice: The Status Quo Or Total Chaos?, Matthew Moldovanyi
Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet
"On June 19, 2014 the Supreme Court handed down a highly important opinion discussing what is considered patentable subject matter in the United States. The case, Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, involved a group of patents for computer software that mitigated settlement risk in financial transactions. The Court held that these patents were not drawn to patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (2012) because the claims were directed toward abstract ideas, which are unpatentable." "This ruling has drawn decidedly mixed reactions from commentators in the legal field. Moreover, this case leaves United States Patent and Trademark …