CAFC Holds that Patent Directed to Relative Placement of Inertial Sensors (for Motion Compensation) to be Patent Eligible

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) delivered its decision in Thales v. United States, in which the CAFC reversed the decision of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, which found the claims of U.S. Patent 6,474,159 to be invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to patent ineligible subject matter (i.e., abstract idea). This is the second CAFC decision to resolve step 1 of the Alice analysis in favor of the patentee (the first CAFC decision being the Enfish v. Microsoft decision in May 2016)…

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