Judge Lends Ear To Audi's Caesar Analogy To End Patent Suit

By Craig Clough ( March 26, 2026, 10:13 PM EDT) -- A Michigan federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Audi of infringing a patent for location-tracking technology, drawing on its analogy of Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon to find that the patent describes an abstract idea ineligible for protection under the Alice precedent....

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