Trustees of Columbia University v. Gen Digital Inc. (Fed. Cir., March 11, 2026) 2024-1243
In this episode we discuss a ruling in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a judgment against Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec) in a long-standing patent dispute with Columbia University. The court determined that the university's patents, which involve detecting computer viruses using emulated program executions and data modeling, are directed toward an abstract idea and are thus potentially ineligible for protection. Consequently, the case was remanded for the lower court to decide if the specific method of using function calls provides a unique…
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