8 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 65 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Bancorp Services, L.L.C. v. Sun Life Assurance Co. Of Canada (u.s.).
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bancorp Services, L.L.C. v. Sun Life Assurance Co. Of Canada (u.s.) Anchor | green | “to salvage an otherwise patent-ineligible process, a computer must be integral to the claimed invention, facilitating the process in a way that a person making calculations or computations could not.” | 11 |
| 2 | Thales Visionix Inc. v. United States | green | “we must therefore ensure at step one that we articulate what the claims are directed to with enough specificity to ensure the step one inquiry is meaningful.” | 10 |
| 3 | Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Bank (USA) | green | “an abstract idea does not become nonabstract by limiting the invention to a particular field of use or technological environment, such as the internet.” | 9 |
| 4 | Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial Corp. | green | “patent eligibility under 101 is an issue of law” | 8 |
| 5 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l | green | “patent eligibility under 101 is an issue of law” | 7 |
| 6 | Internet Patents Corporation v. Active Network, Inc. | green | “recision has been elusive in defining an all-purpose boundary between the abstract and the concrete” | 7 |
| 7 | Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation | green | “ome improvements in computer-related technology when appropriately claimed are undoubtedly not abstract, such as a chip architecture, an led display, and the like. nor do we think that claims directed to software, as opposed to hardware, are inherently abstract” | 7 |
| 8 | Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Symantec Corp. | green | “another helpful way of assessing whether the claims of the patent are directed to an abstract idea is to consider if all of the steps of the claim could be performed by human beings in a non-computerized 'brick and mortar' context.” | 6 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.