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District court judges express frustration with Supreme Court decision on software patents

By Amy Miller ( November 17, 2014, 15:26 GMT | Insight) -- District court judges in California are increasingly expressing frustration with the US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, which found that simply using a computer to implement an abstract idea is not enough to render it patent-eligible. Judges in the Central District of California have been particularly willing to express their concerns in recent opinions upholding and invalidating software patents.District court judges in California are increasingly expressing frustration with the US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, which found that simply using a computer to implement an abstract idea is not enough to render it patent-eligible....

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