Federal Circuit Opinion on Patent Eligibility of Machine Learning Applications Underscores Potential Value of Trade Secrecy to Protecting AI Innovation

On April 18, 2025, the Federal Circuit published an opinion in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. holding that patents claiming the application of existing machine learning models “to new data environments, without disclosing improvements to the machine learning models to be applied, are patent ineligible under § 101” and citing Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208 (2014)....
By: WilmerHale

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