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ENCO Systems, Inc. v. DaVincia, LLC
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2020-1995 · judgment March 8, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
ENCO owns and practices a patent for a system and method for automatically converting human speech carried in an audio-visual signal into the text captions that appear on one’s TV screen. The Federal Circuit ruled that the invention was not eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because it was allegedly directed to an abstract idea. The single question presented is: What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept when determining whether an invention is eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Bradley LeGrand Smith
Endurance Law Group PLC
For respondent
Dennis John Abdelnour
Honigman LLP
Case
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, November 1, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 01 2021Petition DENIED.
- Oct 06 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
- Oct 04 2021Waiver of right of respondent DaVincia, LLC to respond filed.
- Sep 20 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 27, 2021)