Amicus Curiae Filers Support Court Review Of CBM’s Scope, Patent Eligibility Under Alice

(April 28, 2016, 1:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amicus curiae filers argue in an April 14 brief in support of Versata Development Group Inc.’s petition for certiorari that the U.S. Supreme Court must review the invalidation of a pricing patent in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) business method patent review program and 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.)....