SUPREME COURT URGED TO CLARIFY PATENT-ELIGIBILITY PROCEDURAL RULES FOR SOFTWARE

摘要

A British software developer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to examine a pair of virus-protection patents that the company says were invalidated on a motion to dismiss without the proper presumption of validity that all patents should have. See Glasswall Solutions Ltd. et al. v. Clearswift Ltd., No. 18-1448, petition for cert. filed,2019 WL 2297699 (U.S. May 17, 2019). The way computer-related inventions are being evaluated for patent eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C.A. § 101, is in "disarray," London-based Glasswall Solutions Inc.'s certiorari petition says.