TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on May 30, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Avery Dennison's appeal of a lower court's decision upholding a patent involving tracking tags that was the subject of a $62.4 million infringement award won by ADASA Inc., reported Reuters. The case would have provided the court an opportunity to clarify a standard established in 2014 that requires a two-part test to determine if an invention involves an unpatentable abstract idea, natural phenomenon or law of nature and whether it includes an inventive concept. Critics say the standard created confusion about what inventions can be legally protected. President Joe Biden's administration had encouraged the Supreme Court to hear that case.