The Uncertain Future of Section 101: Patent Eligibility in the Wake of Recent Supreme Court (In)Action
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/04/25
Patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 remains one of the most hotly contested and unpredictable areas of U.S. patent law. In the years following the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l (2014) and Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (2012), lower courts, the USPTO, and the Federal Circuit have wrestled with the proper application of the two-step framework for determining whether an invention is directed to an abstract idea, law of...
By: Proskauer - The Patent Playbook