Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc.
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Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc., 841 F.3d 1288 (Fed. Cir. 2016),[1] is a court case in the United States Federal Court System that ended with a panel decision by the Federal Circuit to uphold the patent eligibility of four patents on a system designed to solve an accounting and billing problem faced by network service providers. The district court had held the patents invalid because they were directed to an abstract idea.[2] In the Federal Circuit panel's view the patents were eligible because they contained an "inventive concept"—a combination of elements that was sufficient to ensure that the patents amounted to significantly more than a patent on the ineligible concept itself.
Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc. | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
Full case name | Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc. |
Decided | November 1, 2016 |
Citation | 841 F.3d 1288 |
Case history | |
Prior history | 56 F. Supp. 3d 813 (E.D. Va. 2014) |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Pauline Newman, S. Jay Plager, Jimmie V. Reyna |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Plager, joined by Newman |
Dissent | Reyna |
Laws applied | |
35 U.S.C. § 101 |
This is one of the few times since the Supreme Court's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International decision[3] that the Federal Circuit has held computer software-based patent claims eligible.[4]