United States Federal Circuit
McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games Am. Inc. , 2015-1080
In an infringement action involving patents that relate to automating part of a preexisting 3-D animation method, the District Court's grant of judgment on the pleadings under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c) that the asserted claims of the patent are invalid, is reversed where the ordered combination of claimed steps, using unconventional rules that relate sub-sequences of phonemes, timings, and morph weight sets, is not directed to an abstract idea and is therefore patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. section 101.
Appellate Information
- Published 2016/09/13
Judges
- REYNA
Court
- United States Federal Circuit