REVERSED

1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry
Ex Parte Gardner et al LEBOVITZ 103(a) RICHARD ARON OSMAN

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte Fu et al LORIN 101/103(a) SCHWEGMAN, LUNDBERG & WOESSNER/EBAY

Here, the question is whether a network-based marketplace is a particular machine. ... “The Supreme Court has defined the term “machine” as “a concrete thing, consisting of parts, or of certain devices and combination of devices.” Burr v. Duryee, 68 U.S. (1 Wall.) 531, 570 (1863). This “includes every mechanical device or combination of mechanical powers and devices to perform some function and produce a certain effect or result.” Corning v. Burden, 56 U.S. 252, 267 (1853).” In re Nuijten, 500 F.3d 1346, 1355 (Fed. Cir. 2007).

Corning v. Burden, 56 U.S. (15 How.) 252, 14 L.Ed. 683 (1854) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2106

Nuitjen, In re, Docket No. 2006-1371 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 20, 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2106

Ex Parte Harrison et al LORIN 103(a) GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Designs
Ex Parte Westlund et al LEBOVITZ 102(e)/103(a) HOLLINGSWORTH & FUNK, LLC

AFFIRMED-IN-PART

3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
Ex Parte O'Meara LORIN 103(a)/101 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b) BARNES & THORNBURG LLP

Whether an indication in a preamble of a process claim to the effecting or carrying out of subsequent process steps via a computer is sufficient to tie the process to a “particular” machine and thereby satisfy the machine prong of the Bilski machine-or-transformation test for a claimed process to pass §101 muster is an open legal question. But we find that, in this case, the recitation of the phrase “computer-implemented” in the preamble of the claim is insufficient to satisfy the test.

3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Designs
Ex Parte Voden OWENS 112(1)/112(2)/102(e)/103(a) ZIOLKOWSKI PATENT SOLUTIONS GROUP, SC (ZPS)