Recentive: Federal Circuit’s Patent-Eligibility Guideposts for Machine-Learning Inventions
By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25
In one of the first cases from the Federal Circuit addressing patent eligibility for machine-learning (ML) inventions, the court ruled that applying “generic” ML techniques to a new data environment to automate a task previously performed by humans—in this case, “event scheduling”—is an “abstract idea” and thus not patent-eligible, even if the claim includes superficial limitations related to training and improving an ML model....
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