After Mayo

Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (U.S. 2014)

Case applying the Mayo two-step test to abstract ideas (rather than just laws of nature). This means the Mayo test applies in the realm of things like software, computer algorithms, etc. The impact of this is that lots of software claims are currently being struck down at the motion to dismiss stage (which means they are being dismissed based on no evidence, just based on judge intuition).

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