RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., No. 16-1499 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 28, 2017)

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RecogniCorp sued Nintendo for patent infringement. The district court found that RecogniCorp’s patent claims ineligible subject matter and, based on that finding, granted Nintendo’s motion for judgment on the pleadings . RecogniCorp appeals. The patent’s claims are directed to the abstract idea of encoding and decoding image data, and the claims do not contain a n inventive concept suffi- cient to render the patent eligible. Therefore, we affirm. BACKGROUND 1. The ’303 Patent U.S. Patent No.