( December 8, 2025, 2:35 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 rejected a machine learning patent holder’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which the company contended that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements was erroneous; the company told the high court that the Federal Circuit’s approach to patent eligibility “flouts this Court’s instruction to consider preemption.”...