Facebook Part Of Amicus Brief Against Patents For Abstract Ideas
Facebook and seven other companies filed an amicus brief with the U.S. State Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Friday, contending that patents should not be awarded simply for combining abstract ideas with phrases such as “on a computer” or “over the Internet.”
Facebook and seven other companies filed an amicus brief with the U.S. State Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Friday, contending that patents should not be awarded simply for combining abstract ideas with phrases such as “on a computer” or “over the Internet.”
CNET reported that the 37-page brief was aimed at the patents in a lawsuit in which CLS Bank sued Alice Corp. for infringing on four patents related to a computerized method of having a third party hold funds in escrow on behalf of two other contracting parties.
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