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Mobile Info Retrieval and XML Management Fail Alice Test
In companion cases decided the same day, the Federal Circuit has held invalid, as failing the patent-eligibility requirements of the Alice case and 35 U.S.C. § 101, claims of three patents owned by Intellectual Ventures, two of which are directed to dynamically managing XML (eXtensible Markup Language) documents; the remaining patent being directed to retrieving data on a mobile device. ...