Venetian Commerce to Section 101: Federal Circuit Affirms Commodity Exchange Ineligibility

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Healy offers another data point in the ongoing challenge of patenting financial market innovations. Noah Healy’s pro se appeal sought to overturn the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (Board) finding that his commodity exchange system was patent-ineligible, but the court affirmed that implementing market trading concepts on generic computers doesn’t transform abstract ideas into patentable inventions….
By: Holland & Knight LLP