Data Transmission Patent Not Invalid Under Alice

Since the decision of Alice v. CLS Bank, courts have routinely invalidated patents for being directed to nothing more than abstract ideas with no inventive concept.  However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for patent holders as recent decisions have begun to pull back the habitual invalidation of patents on § 101 grounds.  One decision, Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l. v. LG Electronics, Inc. out of the Eastern District of Texas, found a patent directed to data transmission techniques not invalid based on the first step of the Alice framework.

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