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19 October 2017Patents

Federal Circuit sticks to Alice in Chicago transport row

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has followed the Supreme Court’s landmark Alice v CLS Bank judgment to affirm a lower court ruling that had invalidated four patents allegedly infringed by Chicago’s transport authority.

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