IPWatchdog

It is time to define the term ‘Abstract Idea’

In its infinite wisdom, the Supreme Court has decreed that to determine whether a claimed invention contains patent eligible subject matter requires a more in-depth inquiry than the statute requires.
Patently-O

Bar to Courts: Please Define “Unpatentably Abstract”

Fort Properties, Inc. v. American Master Lease LLC, __ F.3d __ (Fed.Cir. 2012)(Judge Prost joined by Judges Schall and Moore. American Master Lease (AML) owns a patent that covers a method of creating ...
IPWatchdog

Examining Eligibility Case Law Since the Supreme Court’s ‘Original Sin’: Failure to Define ‘Abstract Ideas’ in Alice

“The unworkable Alice abstract ideas framework divined by the Supreme Court has led to the Federal Circuit developing some corollary doctrines that don’t make sense.” Subject matter eligibility has ...
PC Magazine

abstract class

Also called an "abstract superclass," in object technology, it is a class created as a master structure. No objects of an abstract class are created, rather subclasses of the abstract class are ...