E-MESSAGE PATENTS SURVIVE ALICE CHALLENGE

Common computer technology has fallen victim to Alice in many recent cases. It is therefore noteworthy that the District of Massachusetts declined to invalidate e-mail management patents under §101 in Sophos v. RPost.

 

The patents-in-suit are directed to inventions that verify the delivery and integrity of electronic messages.  RPost alleged Sophos infringed the patents-in-suit and Sophos defended such claims by alleging, among other things, that the patents-in-suit are invalid as being directed to patent ineligible abstract ideas.

 

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