Information Indexing System Is Patent-Ineligible, Federal Circuit Says

Mealey's (August 16, 2018, 11:32 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 15 ruling, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with a Texas federal judge that three patents relating to a “self-evolving generic index” for organizing information stored in a database are invalid as ineligible (BSG Tech LLC v. BuySeasons Inc. and Rakuten Commerce LLC, No. 17-1980, Fed. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22704)....