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Federal Circuit Clarifies Limits of Patent Eligibility for Machine Learning Claims

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In a decision with implications for machine learning-related patent filings, the Federal Circuit in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), affirmed the District of Delaware’s...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Patent-Eligibility Considerations & Prosecution Strategies for AI-Based Life Sciences Patent Applications

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This post is part of MoFo’s 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences....more

McCarter & English, LLP

Court Short-Circuits Artificial Intelligence Patents: Federal Circuit Tightens Standards for Patent Eligibility

What does it take to patent an invention on artificial intelligence or machine learning? According to a recent federal appeals court decision, it takes more than just applying a known technique to new data. Rather, the patent...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Generative AI and Trade Secrets: A New Frontier for IP Litigation

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As legal and business professionals focused on protecting intellectual property—especially those of us in business litigation—it's crucial to stay attuned to the expanding influence of generative AI (“GenAI”). While patents...more

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Recentive Analytics v. Fox: The Federal Circuit Provides Analysis on the Patent Eligibility of Machine Learning Claims

On April 18, 2025, the Federal Circuit remained consistent with previous Alice decisions by holding that four machine learning patents involved in a dispute between Recentive Analytics, Inc. and Fox Corp. were ineligible...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

New Federal Circuit Decision - Expect Getting AI/Machine Learning Patents Past 101 to Get Tougher

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The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., invalidating the patent claims at issue as directed to ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In what it noted was a case of...more

Haug Partners LLP

The Application of Generic Machine Learning to New Data Environments Requires “Something More” to be Patent Eligible

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On April 18, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. addressing for the first time whether patents that claim no more than the application of generic machine learning to a new...more

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[Podcast] Making Moves: The USPTO Provides Guidance, Proposes Changes

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had a busy summer in 2024. Businesses and individuals with AI and software-based inventions paid particularly close attention to the agency when, in July, it released updated guidance on...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

First impressions: Federal Circuit finds applied AI claims ineligible for patenting under 35 USC 101

Answering a much-anticipated question of first impression, the Federal Circuit affirmed an Eastern District of Pennsylvania decision that invalidated machine learning-related patent claims as ineligible subject matter under...more

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Patent Claims Running on AI? Federal Circuit Says Not So Fast on Patent Eligibility

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The question of whether machine learning (ML)-based claims meet the subject matter eligibility requirements under current U.S. patent law remains hotly contested. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)...more

Hudnell Law Group

Federal Circuit Issues First Word on AI Patent Eligibility

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On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by Recentive Analytics, Inc. against Fox Corporation. See Recentive Analytics, Inc. v....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Federal Circuit Tightens Standards for AI-related Patent Eligibility

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Summary: In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), the Federal Circuit delivered a clear warning: simply applying generic AI-based models to new environments is not enough to secure...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Recentive: Raising the Patent-Eligibility Bar in AI-Related Inventions

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This post is part of MoFo’s 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Circuit: Machine Learning Patents Fail Section 101 Patent Eligibility Challenge

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The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. (April 18, 2025) has garnered a lot of attention. This is not surprising: It hits on hot topics such as machine learning, artificial intelligence...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Federal Circuit Delivers Blow to AI-Based Patents in Precedential Decision

On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. The Federal Circuit held that the Asserted Patents — which relate to methods of...more

MoFo Tech

Recentive: Federal Circuit’s Patent-Eligibility Guideposts for Machine-Learning Inventions

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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...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp.

Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp., Appeal No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed a question of first impression concerning whether developments in machine...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

USPTO's AI Patent Eligibility Guidance, Vincent Look

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In 2024, the USPTO published guidance on whether an AI-based invention is patent eligible. The guidance includes three hypothetical inventions, including one relating to using an artificial neural network for data anomaly...more

Hogan Lovells

Navigating AI patent applications in China: Key insights from CNIPA’s new examination guidelines

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On 31 December 2024, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) adopted the "Guidelines for Patent Applications for AI-Related Inventions (Trial Implementation)", aiming to shed light on the specific...more

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Strategies for Safeguarding AI Innovation: Navigating the Complex IP Landscape for AI Technologies

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The protection of intellectual property (IP) is vital in the fiercely competitive artificial intelligence (AI) industry, necessitating a deep understanding of how the complex IP framework can be effectively leveraged to...more

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Intellectual Property Report April 2025

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The case law surrounding patent apportionment has evolved significantly, with the Federal Circuit increasingly scrutinizing patent litigants’ reliance on “comparable licenses” as a means for calculating a reasonable royalty....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Healthtech Patents: What Alivecor v. Apple Means for AI-Powered Innovation

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A major Federal Circuit ruling just sent a clear message to AI-driven healthtech companies: AI alone won’t get you a patent....more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Understanding How to Patent Agentic AI Systems

Artificial intelligence is evolving beyond simple pattern recognition and content generation into autonomous decision-making. Agentic AI systems act independently—or with limited human supervision—to achieve specific...more

DLA Piper

China Releases Guidelines for AI-Related Invention Patent Applications

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The China National Intellectual Property Administration ("CNIPA") issued the Guidelines for Patent Applications for Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Related Inventions (Trial Implementation) ("Guidelines") on 31 December 2024,...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Conversations with the Industry: Jason Fiorillo, Boston Dynamics

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Jason Fiorillo, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Boston Dynamics, is a recognized leader in the robotics and AI industries and brings deep expertise in navigating the rapidly evolving intersections of technology,...more

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