Versata Asks High Court To Clarify CBM’s Scope, Patent Eligibility Under Alice

(March 31, 2016, 2:42 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court must review the invalidation of a pricing patent in an America Invents Act business method patent review program, Versata Development Group Inc. argues in a March 11 brief, asking the high court to clarify the scope of the program and make clear whether software is patent-eligible under the Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l (134 S. Ct. 2347 [2014]) test (Versata Development Group Inc. v. SAP America Inc.. and SAP AG and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 15-1145, U.S. Sup.)....