by Steve Driskill | Sep 23, 2016 | [sub] Alice step two, Subject Matter Eligibility
A mere functionally described display of information does not amount to significantly more than an abstract idea. Here, for example, the novel use of a downloadable application for out-of-region delivery of regional broadcast content was found to lack an inventive...
by Steve Driskill | Sep 23, 2016 | [sub] Alice step two, Subject Matter Eligibility
User-based customization does not by itself amount to significantly more than an abstract idea. Here, for example, a network-based media system having “a customized user interface page for [a] given user” was found to be nothing more than an abstract idea because...
by Steve Driskill | Sep 16, 2016 | [sub] direct, Infringement
Functional limitations can be structural even when recited as a negative limitation. Here, for example, a plasticizer claimed as being “not removed from” an internal matrix prior to transplantation into a human was found to be directly infringed by a competing product...
by Steve Driskill | Aug 1, 2016 | [sub] Alice step two, Subject Matter Eligibility
The collection, analysis, and display of information does not generally amount to significantly more under Mayo/Alice step two. Here, for example, the real-time performance monitoring of an electric power grid was found to be patent-ineligible because the claims...
by Steve Driskill | Jul 28, 2016 | [sub] invocation, Means Plus Function
A coined-term element is generally subject to a means-plus-function interpretation. Here, for example, the claimed “symbol generator” for plotting user locations on a map was found to invoke 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 6 because its name was coined for the purposes of the...
