Elec. Power Group’s Patent Claims to Computer-Aided Performance Monitoring of a Power Grid Construed as Ineligible Subject Matter
In its Elec. Power Group v. Alstom, Inc. decision dated August 1, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Central District of California’s grant of a motion for summary judgment on subject-matter-ineligibility grounds. Elec. Power Group had sued Alstom for infringement of several patents generally directed […]
Lending Tree’s Patent Claims to Matching Borrowers with Lenders over the Internet Invalidated as an Abstract Ide
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina’s denial of a motion for summary judgment on July 25, 2016, invalidating patent claims LendingTree had accused Zillow of infringing. The asserted claims were directed to methods and systems for matching borrowers’ credit applications […]