Posts Tagged: "BSG Tech v. Buyseasons"

The Federal Circuit continues to focus on the distinction between an improvement in computer capabilities and an abstract idea for which computers are invoked merely as a tool.  Here, in the context of a database, the Court distinguished between “an improvement to the information stored by a database” and “an improvement in the database’s function”—the former being what the patent covered and also patent-ineligible subject matter.  The Court also rejected multiple arguments related to the breadth of the patents, finding that a narrowed application or scope was not sufficient to meet either step of Alice.