Software patents arent dead, but they just took a blow. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a series of banking patents didnt cover a concrete software process but an abstract idea, throwing them out and potentially setting a stricter precedent for future patents. Alice Corp. and CLS Bank are both major financial institutions, and theyve been sparring for years in court. In order to preempt a threat from Alice, which held those patents, CLS asked for a court to declare them invalid, saying that the basic idea was obvious and that the patents didnt add more than a generic software process to carry it out.
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