Federal Circuit: Accused Inventions Are Not Covered Business Method Patents

Mealey's (February 19, 2019, 11:14 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A finding by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two of four patents are unpatentable as obvious was vacated Feb. 13 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found that “the patents at issue are for technological inventions and thus were not properly subject to” challenged covered business method (CBM) review (IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International Inc., Nos. 2017-1732, -1766, -1769, -2052-55, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 4299)....