By Mike Van Loy, Mike Renaud, Sandra Badin, Matt Karambelas, and Nick Mouton

In recent years, software patents have come under fire from legislation (the American Invents Act) that has generally made patents easier to invalidate, and from court decisions (the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank[1] and its progeny) that have made computer-implemented inventions more vulnerable to subject matter eligibility challenges.