While many recent cases have found claims patent-ineligible in light of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, a split Federal Circuit has ruled that the claims at issue in DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P. (13-1505) are in fact patent eligible. The claims related to a system for retaining visitors on a website. Judge Chen noted that the claims do more than, “recite the performance of some business practice known from the pre-Internet world along with the requirement to perform it on the Internet.” The opinion further specified that the problem overcome by the claims specifically arose because of computer networks and that the claims are directed to a specific way of resolving the problem.
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