abstract idea

Related to abstract idea: Abstract concepts

abstract idea

An idea or thought that is intangible or outside the constraints or possibilities of the real world. Some regard love as but an abstract idea, as it is impossible to define what makes love real.
See also: abstract, idea
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • put (something) in (one's) head
  • put (something) into (one's) head
  • put in head
  • put something into someone's head
  • bounce an idea off (of) (one)
  • bounce an idea off someone
  • that's an idea
  • that's an idea!
  • pop into (someone's) head
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However, courts have long recognized the judicially created exceptions of "abstract ideas," "laws of nature" and "natural phenomena" as being non-patentable subject matter because they are the "basic tools of scientific and technological work." Gottschalk v.
Unfortunately, SCOTUS failed to provide clear guidance as to what is and what is not an "abstract idea" and also did not devise a clear framework for determining whether a patent claim included the requisite "something extra." In reality, the two-part test introduced a standard that invites subjectivity and differing approaches on application in determining when software is patentable.
101 because the asserted claims are directed to an abstract idea and are patent-ineligible.
Court found the intermediated settlement to be an abstract idea and the
invention was a patent-ineligible abstract idea (164), and a divided
(16) The issue decided by the Court was relatively narrow: whether a business method implemented utilizing a generic computer transforms the abstract idea into a patent eligible claim.
(24) By 1998, patent law grew even further by deeming business methods patent eligible as a process or method and not an exception as an abstract idea. (25)
In Mayo and Alice, the Supreme Court seemingly confirmed the role of preemption in the abstract idea inquiry.
It then shows how the best writers have put each of those traditions to distinctive use for the sake of caricature, to make an abstract idea visible, to make a complicated idea simple.
software and believe that software is an abstract idea and not concrete
According to a training presentation published by the USPTO, the claims in Alice were rejected as an "abstract idea" that failed to recite additional elements that amount to "significantly more" than the judicial exception preventing the patenting of abstract ideas.
The next step is to create more designs that support the (Do Good Be Happy) motto, so that it resonates with customers on more than just as an abstract idea. I'm also continually learning more about the development of organic clothing and the latest innovations that have come with an environmentally conscious society.
According to the company, in applying the reasoning of Alice decision, Judge Schroeder found that although the '227 Patent is directed to an abstract idea, the abstract idea 'is necessarily directed to improving computer technology' and that 'the Defendants have not provided any evidence that claimed computer functions (using persistent mainstreams and substreams) were well-understood, routine, conventional activities previously known to the industry at the time of filing' as would be required to be invalid under Alice.
On the one hand, the Supreme Court did find that the challenged software patent was a patent-ineligible abstract idea, but it declined to categorically associate computer software inventions as ineligible abstract ideas.
(23) The district court held that all of the asserted claims were ineligible for patent protection because they contained patent-ineligible subject matter, specifically that of an abstract idea. (24)