By Michael Borella — In an order that is clearly less impactful and damaging than a number of opinions that the Supreme Court has disgorged in the last two weeks, the justices have denied certiorari in American Axle & Mfg. Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC. To many, American Axle represented the Gordian Knot in patent-eligibility that had been unartfully tied by the Court with help from the Federal Circuit. The case was possibly the best opportunity yet to clarify what was meant by the remarkably vague two-part test set forth in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l. Complaints about the…
