Tag: artificial intelligence
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Nielsen v. TVision: Federal Circuit Links Claim Breadth to Analogous Art and Obviousness
The Federal Circuit’s decision in The Nielsen Company (US), LLC v. TVision Insights, Inc., Case No. 25-1371 (Fed. Cir. August 14, 2026), illustrates a recurring tension in patent law: the breadth that gives a patent claim commercial value can also make the claim more difficult to defend against prior art. Nielsen argued that prior art concerning…
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Recentive v. Fox: Generic Machine Learning in a New Field Is Not Patent Eligible
In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 23-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent infringement suit on § 101 grounds, holding that Recentive’s asserted patents were directed to ineligible subject matter. The court concluded that the patents merely applied well-known machine learning techniques to the new…