Not everything is patentable. First, only inventions are patentable. Second, only certain inventions are patentable. Four types of inventions are patentable: articles of manufacture,.
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A district court in the Eastern District of Texas granted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss computer-implemented claims as patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Patent is directed to credentialing visitors and checking them in and out of an access-controlled environment, and the court found that the alleged inventive concept was nothing more than applying technology to “a method of accomplishing [a] longstanding human activity.”
Plaintiff Repifi Vendor Logistics, Inc. sued IntelliCentrics, Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 10,304,268 (“the ’268 Patent”). The ’268 Patent “is directed to a method for credentialing visitors to an access-controlled environment by an access administrator.” Specifically, the claimed method streamlines the credentialing and check-in/out processes for visitors to access controlled facilities (like health care facilities and office buildings) through a smar
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EDTX Judge Shuts The Door On Visitor Badge App Patent Suit
Law360 (March 31, 2021, 11:16 PM EDT) An Eastern District of Texas judge tossed a lawsuit Tuesday filed by Repifi Vendor Logistics alleging a rival infringed its patent for a smartphone app for checking in visitors to an access-controlled environment, saying the technology organizes human activity that long predates the existence of the patent.
U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan granted Intellicentrics Inc. s motion to dismiss without prejudice, saying the technology is an unpatentable abstract idea that does not pass the two-step eligibility test the U.S. Supreme Court created in its 2014 Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank decision.
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