Commonwealth v. Prudential Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding claims directed toward storing, organizing, and retrieving memory in a logical table to be an abstract idea
• “Longstanding practices are often the building blocks of future research and development. Patents on these practices would significantly impede productive or inventive activity, to the detriment of society.”
• finding unpatentable claims addressed to storing information in logical tables on computers
• “Tables continue to be elementary tools used by everyone from school 'children to scientists and programmers.”
• “When a claim recites a computer generically, the Court should ignore this element in defining the claim’s purpose.”
• program that “recites a modern, computer-specific concept to solve the modern, computer-specific problem of scarce memory” would be patentable because “it is addressed to an inventive computing concept”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).