The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court’s latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents. The high court denied a petition filed in January by Audio Evolution Diagnostics Inc., which argued that following the justices’ 2014 Alice v. CLS Bank decision on patent eligibility, the law in that area “is in chaos and requires this court’s review.”
