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✅   Alice Backs Anna: Federal Circuit Finds Miller Mendel's Background Check Patent Abstract

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By Dennis Crouch In Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas, No. 2022-1753 (Fed. Cir. July 18, 2024), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment on the pleadings that the asserted claims of Miller Mendel’s U.S. Patent No. 10,043,188 (‘188 patent) are ineligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The court also affirmed the denial of the defendant’s motion for attorneys’ fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285. The ‘188 patent is directed to “a web based software system for managing the process of performing pre-employment background investigations.” Representative claim 1 recites a “method for a computing device with a processor and a system memory to assist an investigator in conducting a background ...

patentlyo.com     Jul 18, 2024