On January 27, the USPTO provided its promised set of examples of patent-eligible and patent-ineligible claims relating to the abstract idea exception to 35 U.S.C. § 101, in light of Alice Corp ...

In Ex parte Michalek, the PTAB evaluated an invention involving medical health technology and artificial intelligence. While ...

The Supreme Court yesterday issued its long-awaited decision in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International addressing the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions under 35 USC §101 ...

The positive examples closest to the computer field are as follows: Example 21 is held eligible because of “solving an Internet-centric problem” similar to DDR Holdings.

The examples are also not clear on when something would qualify as an abstract idea. for example, example #4 is an abstract idea (but rescued by “something more”) where example #1 is not abstract.

An example of abstraction is the London Underground map. It details tube and rail lines and the stations that are on them. That is all that is required for a passenger to be able to plan a journey ...

Abstraction: key to training DL models Much of the early work in AI has gone in to adding higher levels of abstraction to the underlying math libraries (CUDA, Intel’s MKL-DNN, etc).