Common computer technology has fallen victim to Alice in many recent cases. It is therefore noteworthy that the District of Massachusetts declined to invalidate e-mail management patents under §101 in Sophos v. RPost.

The patents-in-suit are directed to inventions that verify the delivery and integrity of electronic messages. RPost alleged Sophos infringed the patents-in-suit and Sophos defended such claims by alleging, among other things, that the patents-insuit are invalid as being directed to patent ineligible abstract ideas.