“Do it on AI” claims are Abstract Ideas

by Dennis Crouch

The Federal Circuit’s AI-patent decision this week affirmed a district court’s dismissal of the claims as ineligible, holding that “generic” machine learning technology is itself an abstract idea. Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025).

In its decision, the court acknowledged the growing importance of machine learning, and exerted some care in limiting its holding:

Machine learning is a burgeoning and increasingly important…