The Supreme Court Should Take Up the USAA Case to Bring Clarity to the Esoteric ‘Abstract Ideas’ Doctrine of Alice
In 2014, the Supreme Court held that an invention is patent-ineligible if directed to “abstract ideas,” but that there was no need to define the term. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208, 221. Now, with the experience of more than a decade of…
The USAA case provides a perfect vehicle because it squarely addresses the issue of what is meant by an abstract idea. It does not, like other cases presented to the Court in recent years, focus on t… [+11813 chars]