“On appeal, the CAFC agreed that ‘the patents are directed to the abstract idea of using a generic machine learning technique in a particular environment, with no inventive concept’.” The U.S. Supreme ...

However, the release of generic machine learning developer tools does not address the underlying needs for IIoT predictive maintenance, nor can it counter the lack of available big data scientists.

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...