DROPBOX BEATS APPEAL OVER 'ABSTRACT' PATENT FOR COMPUTER FILE BACKUP

摘要

The top patent appeals court has refused to revive an "onsite backup" patent that was invalidated in a dispute accusing cloud-storage service Dropbox Inc.of patent infringement.The U.S.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 26 affirmed a lower court's decision finding technology licensor Whitserve LLC's patent invalid as abstract.