June 30, 2015
Authored and Edited by Sean D. Damon; Elizabeth D. Ferrill; Lauren J. Dreyer
In Internet Patents v. Active Network, No. 14-1048 (Fed. Cir. June 23, 2015), the Federal Circuit affirmed yet another invalidity ruling for lack of patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The asserted patent was filed in 2000 and used a conventional web browser’s Back-and-Forward navigational functionalities without data loss in an online application with dynamically generated web pages.
On appeal, the Court held that the asserted claims were directed to an abstract idea: retaining information in the navigation of online forms. The Court noted that while claim 1 was directed to “maintaining” the state of user input upon “activation” of another icon (or tab), the “mechanism for maintaining the state is not described, although this is stated to be the essential invention.” The additional elements of the dependent claims did not add the necessary “inventive concept” because they represented “generic data collection steps or siting the ineligible concept in a particular technological environment.”
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