Biometric Identification Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

​ The court granted defendants' motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiffs’ biometric identification patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "[H]umans have long compared images of faces they have seen previously (an old-fashioned registration template) to faces they encounter in the world to determine or confirm an individual’s identity. . . . Plaintiffs argue that the [patent] 'focus[es] on a specific means or method that improves the relevant technology of a global biometric authentication system.' But neither the template receiver nor the verifier has any relation to the creation of a template; the plain language of claim 1 states that the system components only receive and compare the templates. . . . Nor does the patent discuss how the templates are compared. And even though part of the system operates remotely, that does not evidence a nonabstract concept."

IQS US Inc. et al v. Calsoft Labs Incorporated et al, 1-16-cv-07774 (ILND August 18, 2017, Order) (Lefkow, USDJ)