Another Software Patent Survives an Alice Challenge

Inventions directed to “organizing information” have long been the subject of §101 challenges. Courts and the Patent Office alike have invalidated software patents that organize information and activity, often citing Bilski for the proposition that “certain methods of organizing human activity” are unpatentable abstract ideas. Recently, however, the District of Delaware declined to hold invalid a patent directed to categorizing summarized information, proving there is no “one size fits all” approach to this group of inventions.

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