Abstract Ideas and Patent Abstracts and Alice/101

by Steve Reiss (stevenreiss@scienbizippc.com)

Plaintiff also attacked the Defendants' reliance on patent abstracts, insisting that:

"[a]nybody who practices before the patent office, anybody who has been doing this more than six months would say, to take the abstract, something that's required to be in the patent, and use it to prove that a patent is abstract is silly."

Front Row Techs., LLC v. NBA Media Ventures, LLC, 204 F. Supp. 3d 1190 *, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116591 (D.N.M. Aug. 30, 2016)