The Eastern District of Texas Granted a Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because the Asserted Patent Was Directed to the Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea of Credentialing Visitors and Checking Them In and Out of an Access-Controlled Environment
By EsqSocial Corporation 24/05/21
A district court in the Eastern District of Texas granted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss computer-implemented claims as patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Patent is directed to credentialing visitors and checking them in and out of an access-controlled environment, and the court found that the alleged inventive concept was nothing more than applying technology to “a method of accomplishing [a] longstanding human activity.”...
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP