Federal Circuit and USPTO Continue to Clarify Framework for Determining Patent Eligible Subject Matter

In Amdocs (Israel) Limited v. Openet Telecom, Inc. 120 USPQ2d 1527 (Fed. Cir. 2016), a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a system that has a distributed architecture and that assists with accounting and billing for network service providers was claimed in a manner that was eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101, after evaluating the claims as they would be “understood in light of that written description.”