Patent Eligibility of Online Application Software – Another View
Scott Anderson
In a recent article, Ping-Hsun Chen presented “Patent Eligibility of Online Application Software After Internet Patents Corp. v. Active Network, Inc.” in which he reached the following conclusion: “Internet Patents indicates that on-line application software may no longer be patent eligible.” This very gloomy conclusion overstates the facts somewhat, and a more accurate statement of the current state of affairs is in order.
99 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc’y 273(2017)
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