Free Stream Gets Caught in the Section 101 Sandbox | Knobbe Martens
Before Judges Dyk, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Summary: Patent claims were directed to an abstract idea where the claims failed to recite any structure or concrete actions for achieving the claimed advance and the claimed advance did not the improve the operability of computing devices. Free Stream Media Corp. sued Alphonso Inc. for patent infringement. Alphonso filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that certain asserted claims are patent ineligible under § 101 because they are directed to the abstract idea of tailored ...