Developing story on the validity of digital-imaging patents

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Abstract: In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that merely requiring generic computer implementation of a business process doesn’t transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention. Less than a month later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put this decision to work in a case addressing whether an “improved device profile” involved in digital image processing was patent eligible. This article looks at the details. Digitech Image Technologies, LLC v. Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Nos. 2013-1600, -1601, -1602, -1603, -1604, -1605, -1606, -1607, -1608, -1609, -1610, -1611, -1612, -1613, -1614, -1615, -1616, -1617, -1618, July 11, 2014 (Fed. Cir.) Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, No. 13-298, June 19, 2014 (Supreme Court)