Good question -- the article talks about the case, but doesn't say much about the company. A cursory look at their website makes it appear that Alice Corp. is probably a non-practicing entity (aka patent troll) in the financial services space. Does anyone know if they actually have a business aside from licensing their patent portfolio?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...

http://www.alicecorp.com/fs_patents.html