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US Supreme Court won’t review Recentive, as USPTO formalizes Desjardins

By Melissa Ritti ( December 8, 2025, 17:00 GMT | Insight) -- In their Monday orders list, the US Supreme Court refused to disturb leading appellate precedent on the inventiveness of machine learning-related patents. Their denial of Recentive Analytics’ petition for a writ of certiorari comes just days after the US Patent and Trademark Office moved to formalize its own newly-loosened rules for assessing, during examination, the eligibility of AI innovations.Recentive Analytics has failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to take a second look at a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which upheld, as ineligible under Section 101 of the Patent Act, the invalidation of four machine learning patents....

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