In a significant decision regarding patent eligibility, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, the U.S Supreme Court in June 2004 effectively raised the bar for software patents by declining a patent on the grounds that implementation of claims based on abstract ideas were not patentable. The period from 2008 to 2013 had witnessed a doubling of patent litigation cases, many of them coming from non-practicing entities or “patent trolls”. During the same period there was observed a significant increase in patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. What is the expected effect of the above Supreme Court ruling on patent litigation incidence?
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