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ARTICLE · 28 AUGUST 2015

Steps That Simply Map Out An Application On A Computer Do Not Confer Patent Eligibility

Intellectual Ventures (IV) sued Capital One Financial on patents related to internet-based budget tracking, web page customization and scanning hard-copy images.

United StatesIntellectual Property

Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial

Again addressing the issue of subject-matter eligibility of computer-implemented claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found two patents to be directed to non-eligible subject matter, concluding that the invention merely applied abstract ideas using generic computer elements. Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial, Case No. 14-1506 (Fed. Cir., July 6, 2015) (Dyk, J.).

Intellectual Ventures (IV) sued Capital One Financial on patents related to internet-based budget tracking, web page customization and scanning hard-copy images. IV stipulated to non-infringement for the hard-copy scanning patent after the district court's claim construction required the recited machine-readable instruction form to be a physical document. After the district court held the claims of the other two patents were directed to ineligible subject matter and additionally that the claims of one of the two

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