The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court's ruling invalidating Longitude Licensing's patent claims relating to digital image correction technologies. The court determined that these claims, specifically from U.S. Patent No. 7668365, outlined abstract ideas without sufficiently detailing the implementation required for patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Longitude's claims were deemed insufficient as they merely recited functional improvements without concrete methods of achievement, leading to their dismissal against Google's motion.
The Federal Circuit ruled that Longitude's patent claims are directed to abstract ideas, failing to provide a clear implementation for the claimed technologies.
The court emphasized that merely using computers to achieve an abstract idea does not satisfy the requirements for patent eligibility under Section 101.
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