(January 18, 2017, 11:36 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A patent owner petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 5 to answer if patent claims can be invalidated under 35 U.S. Code Section 101 by finding under step two of Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l. (134 S. Ct. 2347 [2014]) that the claims “involve the conventional implementation of an abstract concept” based upon evidence “that the ordered combinations of hardware in the claims are unconventional apparatuses with novel applications” (IPLearn-Focus LLC v. Microsoft Corp., No. 16-859, U.S. Sup.)....