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REVERSED
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2435 Ex Parte Han et al 13802499 - (D) DROESCH 103 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP APPLE INC. MURPHY, JOSEPH B

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2858 Ex Parte GRANGER-BROWN et al 13468413 - (D) HOUSEL 102/103 Faegre Baker Daniels LLP MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3744 Ex Parte Kevenaar et al 12296587 - (D) PESLAK 103 SHELL OIL COMPANY CRENSHAW, HENRY T

3777 Ex Parte Penney et al 11847652 - (D) ASTORINO 112(2)/103 JOHNSON & JOHNSON IP, JASON M

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2814 Ex Parte Yoo et al 12991745 - (D) McMANUS 103 103 KED & ASSOCIATES, LLP TANG, SUIAN

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1673 Ex Parte Pietrzkowski 14118865 - (D) TOWNSEND 103 FISH & TSANG LLP MAIER, LEIGH C

Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1735 Ex Parte Lu et al 13833114 - (D) McGEE 112(1) 112(2)/103 The Whitaker LLC GAMINO, CARLOS J

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3684 Ex Parte Mao 14229801 - (D) LORIN 112(4) 101 Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. / PayPal ZUKANOVICH, BRANDY A

“The § 101 inquiry must focus on the language of the Asserted Claims themselves.” Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp., 839 F.3d 1138, 1149 (Fed. Cir. 2016). See Accenture Global Servs., GmbH v. Guidewire Software, Inc., 728 F.3d 1336, 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2013) (admonishing that “the important inquiry for a § 101 analysis is to look to the claim”); see also Content Extraction & Transmission LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, Nat 7 Ass ’n, 776 F.3d 1343, 1346 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (“We focus here on whether the claims of the asserted patents fall within the excluded category of abstract ideas.”).

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3732 Ex Parte Fletcher 12693575 - (D) CALVE 103 Tumey LLP SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1652 BUTAMAX™ ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC Requester and Respondent v. GEVO, INC.Patent Owner and Appellant Ex Parte 8241878 et al 13/296,944 95002167 - (D) LEBOVITZ 102 E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY THIRD PARTY REQUESTOR: COOLEY, LLP RAILEY, JOHNNY F original ROBINSON, HOPE A

content extraction, cyberfone, electric power

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AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2487 Ex Parte Flemming et al 13122437 - (D) WINSOR 103 103 CROWELL & MORING LLP RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2623 Ex Parte Hammad et al 12258322 - (D) MOHANTY 103 112(2) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP/VISA MARCUS, LELAND R.

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3646 Ex Parte Eriksson et al 12763049 - (D) DOUGAL 112(2)/103 103 THE SMALL PATENT LAW GROUP LLC BURKE, SEAN P

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2172 Ex Parte Skultety-Betz 12306419 - (D) AMUNDSON 103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP GREENE, SABRINA LETICIA

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2447 Ex Parte HARPUR et al 13270422 - (D) BAUMEISTER 103 Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC LIN, SHERMAN L

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2648 Ex Parte Nannarone et al 13412052 - (D) DIXON 102/103 CHOATE, HALL & STEWART LLP SANDIFORD, DEVAN A

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3625 Ex Parte Singhal 13524067 - (D) MEDLOCK 101/102 41.50 101 Tara Chand Sighal MISIASZEK, MICHAEL

In this regard, the claims are similar to the claims that the Federal Circuit determined were patent ineligible in Content Extraction & Transmission v. Wells Fargo Bank, 776 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2014) and Cyberfone Systems, LLC v. CNN Interactive Group, Inc., 558 F.App’x 988 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (non-precedential), and more recently, in Elec. Power Grp. LLC v. Alstom, 830 F.3d 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2016).

In Content Extraction, the Federal Circuit considered the patent eligibility of a method claim for “processing information from a diversity of types of hard copy documents.”  Content Extraction, 776 F.3d at 1345.  Applying step one of the Alice framework, the Federal Circuit determined that the claim was “drawn to the abstract idea of 1) collecting data, 2) recognizing certain data within the collected data set, and 3) storing that recognized data in a memory” — concepts that the court noted were “undisputedly well-known.”  Id. at 1347.

In Cyberfone, the court evaluated a method claim reciting steps that required “obtaining data, ‘exploding’ the data, i.e., separating it into component parts, and sending those parts to different destinations.”  Cyberfone, 558 F.App’x at 990.  The Federal Circuit held that this claim involved an abstract idea, explaining that “using categories to organize, store, and transmit information is well-established,” and that “the well-known concept of categorical data storage, i.e., the idea of collecting information in classified form, then separating and transmitting that information according to its classification, is an abstract idea that is not patent-eligible.”  Id. at 992.  

In Electric Power, the method claims at issue were directed to performing real-time performance monitoring of an electric power grid by collecting data from multiple data sources, analyzing the data, and displaying the results.  Elec. Power Grp., 830 F.3d at 1351–52.  There, the Federal Circuit held that the claims were directed to an abstract idea because “[t]he advance they purport to make is a process of gathering and analyzing information of a specified content, then displaying the results, and not any particular assertedly inventive technology for performing those functions.”  Id. at 1354.  

Similarly here, we find that claims 1, 7, and 13 involve nothing more than collecting data and, in the case of claims 1 and 7, transferring the data from one destination to another — activities squarely within the realm of abstract ideas.

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3764 Ex Parte SLAYTON et al 13013931 - (D) PER CURIAM 102 THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY LEE, JOSHUA S

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REVERSED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2128 Ex Parte CRAMER et al 13047185 - (D) KENNY 102 41.50 103 STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C. ALHIJA, SAIF A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2682 Ex Parte Niederhuefner 13345284 - (D) BARRY 102/103 REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN P.C. AKHTER, SHARMIN

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte Bodin et al 11843945 - (D) LORIN 112(2)/103 41.50 101 IBM CORPORATION (RHF) VIZVARY, GERALD C

3629 Ex Parte Nations et al 13339164 - (D) BAYAT 103 41.50 101 TARGET BRANDS, INC. WHITAKER, ANDREW B

3633 Ex Parte Metten 13097177 - (D) ASTORINO 103 NEXSEN PRUET, LLC (GREENVILLE OFFICE) DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A

3662 Ex Parte Leyerle 12341690 - (D) REIMERS 103 REISING ETHINGTON P.C. General Motors Corporation ALSOMIRI, MAJDI A

3695 Ex Parte DAVIS et al 13593061 - (D) FISCHETTI 103 WHITHAM, CURTIS & COOK, P.C. DASS, HARISH T

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3742 Ex Parte Thomasson 12072209 - (D) REIMERS 103 MARVIN A. GLAZER PAIK, SANG YEOP

3788 Ex Parte LEVY et al 13569444 - (D) REIMERS 103 WELSH FLAXMAN & GITLER LLC DESAI, KAUSHIKKUMAR A

AFFIRMED-IN-PART
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1783 Ex Parte Moon et al 12661948 - (D) PAK 103 112(2)/102 EMCH, SCHAFFER, SCHAUB & PORCELLO CO PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2172 Ex Parte BOHMS 12559625 - (D) MORGAN 112(2)/102/103 103 LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN R. OLSEN, PLLC ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED

2177 Ex Parte Kloiber et al 12870497 - (D) FENICK 103 103 Sprinkle IP Law Group/OPEN HUYNH, THU V

2177 Ex Parte Reeves et al 11461087 - (D) KENNY 103 103 DALY, CROWLEY, MOFFORD & DITRKEE, LLP FABER, DAVID

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2467 Ex Parte Bryan 12180348 - (D) MORGAN 103 103 Baker Botts LLP TSEGAYE, SABA

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2648 Ex Parte TRAPPENIERS et al 11842924 - (D) CURCURI 103 103 FAY SHARPE/LUCENT HUANG, WEN WU

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1619 Ex Parte Haskel et al 13488952 - (D) NEW 103 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY GREENE, IVAN A

1734 Ex Parte Suchak 13590424 - (D) GUPTA 103 The Linde Group NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA

1759 Ex Parte Cooper et al 12416075 - (D) RANGE 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP TAI, XIUYU

1759 Ex Parte Kozinsky et al 12437822 - (D) RANGE 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP TAI, XIUYU

1777 Ex Parte JOHNSTON-HALL et al 12973508 - (D) RANGE 102/103 Evoqua Water Technologies LLC MENON, KRISHNAN S

1786 Ex Parte Dwiggins et al 13205268 - (D) FRANKLIN 112(1) 103 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP CHOI, PETER Y

1787 Ex Parte Nagasaka et al 13262395 - (D) ROESEL 103 KRATZ, QUINTOS & HANSON, LLP SHUKLA, KRUPA

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2126 Ex Parte Locker et al 12198979 - (D) MORGAN 103 ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES DUNN, DARRIN D

2185 Ex Parte Gay et al 13082282 - (D) KENNY 103 HP Inc. DANG, KHANH

2191 Ex Parte Chen et al 13524113 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(1) 103/double patenting STEVENS & SHOWALTER, L.L.P. BOX IBM DENG, ANNA CHEN

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2427 Ex Parte Beadle et al 11812781 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 Tarolli, Sundheim, Co veil & Tummino LLP/Imagine Corporation CORBO, NICHOLAS T

2436 Ex Parte VÄHÄ-SIPILÄ et al 13071209 - (D) McKEOWN 112(2)/103 Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. LE, KHOI V

2454 Ex Parte YELLAPRAGADA 13402197 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 112(2) 103 Pillsbury Whithrop Shaw Pittman LLP (CA, Inc.) BOOK, PHYLLIS A

2476 Ex Parte Yu et al 13044301 - (D) KENNY 103 PARK, VAUGHAN, FLEMING & DOWLER LLP — Brocade Communications Systems Inc. WEIDNER, TIMOTHY J

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2611 Ex Parte Drebin et al 13495597 - (D) LENTIVECH 103 Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & G (Apple) TUNG, KEE M

2619 Ex Parte Zhang et al 12531906 - (D) MORGAN 103 THOMSON Licensing LLC MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM

2659 Ex Parte Liu et al 12493965 - (D) MORGAN 103 Core Wireless Licensing Ltd ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A

2692 Ex Parte Sung et al 12641169 - (D) MORGAN 112(2)/103 APPLE c/o MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP LA MERKOULOVA, OLGA VLADIMIROVNA

2694 Ex Parte Zheng et al 13213210 - (D) MORGAN 103 SIEMENS CORPORATION MOON, SEOKYUN

2696 Ex Parte Greb et al 11949830 - (D) AMUNDSON 103 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED LUBIT, RYAN A

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2817 Ex Parte Kelber 13426823 - (D) BAIN 103 The Kelber Law Group TRAN, THANH Y

2854 Ex Parte Teng 12176377 - (D) PRAISS 103 GARY GANGHUI TENG ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3624 Ex Parte McDaniel et al 13742024 - (D) MEYERS 101/103 Noble Systems Corporation SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N

3626 Ex Parte Agnihotri et al 12747602 - (D) LORIN 103 101 PHILIPS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS RAJ, RAJIV J

That the claim includes more words than the Examiner relied upon to articulate the abstract idea is an insufficient reason to persuasively argue that claim 1 is not directed to an abstract idea. Cf. Content Extraction & Transmission LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, Nat. Ass ’n, 776 F.3d 1343, 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2014), cert, denied, 136 S. Ct. 119, 193 F. Ed. 2d 208 (2015) (holding that claims reciting “1) collecting data, 2) recognizing certain data within the collected data set, and 3) storing that recognized data in a memory” were drawn to an abstract idea)

3671 Ex Parte Brown 13757272 - (D) KINDER 102/103 Atlanta Raker Dnnelsinn CHU, KATHERINE J

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3724 Ex Parte Hada et al 13183584 - (D) WARNER 103 KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. CHOI, STEPHEN

3741 Ex Parte Costa et al 12636388 - (D) WARNER 102/103 O'Shea Getz P.C. SUNG, GERALD LUTHER

3777 Ex Parte Mannheimer et al 13292956 - (D) REIMERS 103/double patenting Covidien LP LIU, CHU CHUAN

REHEARING

GRANTED
Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2437 Ex Parte Fitzgibbon et al 13777787 - (D) MANTIS MERCADER 103 41.50 103 FITCH EVEN TAB IN & FLANNERY, LLP LANIER, BENJAMIN E

DENIED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2163 Ex Parte Kimber 13525363 - (R) MORGAN 103 CRGO LAW HO, BINH VAN

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2855 Ex Parte Cudini et al 10584276 - (R) PRAISS 103 BACON & THOMAS, PLLC DEVITO, ALEX T

REEXAMINATION

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2157 MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC, AND CARDIOCOM, INC., Requesters, v. ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, INC. and HEALTH HERO NETWORK, INC., Patent Owner Ex Parte 6968375 et al 09/658,209 95002237 - (D) HOFF 103 Robert Bosch LLC ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, INC. Counsel for Third Party Requester: Mercant & Gould PC KE, PENG original SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI

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REVERSED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1786 Ex Parte Schaeffer et al 11911922 - (D) GAUDETTE 102/103 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP REA, CHRISTINE

Tech Center 2400 Networking, Multiplexing, Cable, and Security
2486 Ex Parte Symes 13137126 - (D) HOWARD 102/103 NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC TRUONG, NGUYEN T

Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2842 Ex Parte Walsh et al 13802877 - (D) GARRIS 102/103 Medtronic, Inc. (CRDM) SKIBINSKI, THOMAS S

AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
1616 Ex Parte Hoop et al 11039377 - (D) FREDMAN 112(1)/103 Abel Law Group, LLP KARPINSKI, LUKE E

1671 Ex Parte Pfeffinger 12994575 - (D) GRIMES 103 Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (WM) BROOKS, CLINTON A

Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2144 Ex Parte Borriello et al 13361033 - (D) BEAMER 103 LERNER GREENBERG STEMER LLP MRABI, HASSAN

2194 Ex Parte Deininger et al 11758846 - (D) HAGY 102/103 SIEMENS CORPORATION RONI, SYED A

Tech Center 2600 Communications
2634 Ex Parte Lin et al 13648585 - (D) SHIANG 103 KACVINSKY DAISAK BLUNI PLLC TORRES, JUAN A

2644 Ex Parte Drevon 10509852 - (D) GALLIGAN 103 Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC (ALU) CAI, WAYNE HUU

Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3668 Ex Parte Namaky 14041032 - (D) SIU 102 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP BEAULIEU, YONEL

3696 Ex Parte Harvey 14103568 - (D) SHAH 101 Thomas D,Harvey CHANG, EDWARD

Although, arguably, the steps of producing and storing the digital representation may be performed by a computer, these steps do not transform the article into a different article. The data, such as serial numbers, remain data. Further, producing, storing, and recognizing a digital representation of a physical object are "well-understood, routine, [and] conventional activities previously known to the industry." Content Extraction and Transmission LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, Nat. Ass 'n, 776 F.3d 1343, 1347--49 (Fed. Cir. 2014) ("The concept of data collection, recognition, and storage is undisputedly well known. Indeed, humans have always performed these functions .... the use of a scanner or other digitizing device to extract data from a document was well-known at the time of filing, as was the ability of computers to translate the shapes on a physical page into typeface characters"). The "unconventional steps" and "limitations other than those well-understood, routine and conventional" are business-related steps that simply elaborate on the abstract idea.

Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3731 Ex Parte Wasylucha 12685931 - (D) HORNER 102/103 DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP HOUSTON, ELIZABETH