The North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology (“JOLT”) presents a symposium on patent eligibility and the consequences of Alice Corp. Pty. Ptd. v. CLS Bank Int’l Feb. 6, 2015 (8 am to 1 pm).
In Alice Corp., the Supreme Court held that the patent claims at issue were not patent eligible because they were drawn to a patent-ineligible abstract idea under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The symposium will concentrate on clarifying what constitutes an abstract idea, and focus more closely on the open questions left by Alice Corp. in addition to discussing what the future of software patent eligibility looks like.
