On April 11, 2017, the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision in favor of Finnegan client Travelers Lloyds of Texas Insurance Co., which held that the asserted claims of two Integrated Claims Systems patents covering the electronic processing of health documents are invalid as abstract and not inventive under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice decision.
Integrated sued Travelers in 2013, alleging that Travelers infringed its patents. In March 2015, the PTAB granted Travelers’ petitions for covered business method reviews of the asserted claims. In its October response brief, Travelers told the Federal Circuit that Integrated's patents relate to financial products and are not inventive because they simply outline ways of using computers.