Once again, a court has denied a motion to dismiss a patent infringement suit, holding that the question of patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 could not be decided on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. The Court held that the pleading…
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An inventive concept allows an abstract idea to be patentable subject matter, but what facts are needed to allege such an inventive concept to survive dismissal? In Savvy Dog Systems, LLC v. Pennsylvania Coin, LLC, the Middle Dist…
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In Image Processing Technologies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., et al., (E. D. Texas, October 24, 2017) Judge Gilstrap applied the two-step Alice patent-eligibility analysis and granted Samsung’s Motion for Partial Summary J…
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Various claims of two patents covering telephone call processing were found to be directed to respective patent-ineligible abstract ideas: “sequentially dialing a list of telephone numbers to overcome a busy signal,” and retri…
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