By Adil Ahsanuddin
Now a year and half removed from the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal ruling in Alice Corp. Party v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347, 2355 (2014), patent professionals have fallen through the proverbial looking glass, as the number of issued business-method and software patents have declined substantially over similar pre-Alice periods. The two-step test defined in Alice for determining 35 U.S.C. § 101 patent eligibility seemed simple enough: (i) is the claim concept directed to an “abstract idea,” and if so,