REVERSED
Tech Center 2600 Communications
2693 Ex Parte Shepelev et al 13009606 - (D) HOWARD 103 Osha Liang LLP/Synaptics DAVIS, TONY O
Tech Center 2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
2854 Ex Parte Rizika et al 13775704 - (D) INGLESE 103 NUTTER MCCLENNEN & FISH LLP FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3623 Ex Parte Harshbarger et al 12751120 - (D) MEDLOCK 103 STEVENS & SHOWALTER LLP BOYCE, ANDRE D
3646 Ex Parte Benninghofen et al 13380397 - (D) HOFFMANN 101 CROWELL & MORING LLP MCGUE, FRANK J
In Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp., 822 F.3d 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2016), for example, the court noted that “[s]oftware can make non abstract improvements to computer technology just as hardware improvements can[.]” Enfish at 1335. The court put the question as being “whether the focus of the claims is on [a] specific asserted improvement in computer capabilities ... or, instead, on a process that qualifies as an ‘abstract idea’ for which computers are invoked merely as a tool.” Id. at 1335—36. In Enfish, the court found that the “plain focus of the claims” there was on “an improvement to computer functionality itself, not on economic or other tasks for which a computer is used in its ordinary capacity.” Id. at 1336.
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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AFFIRMED
Tech Center 1700 Chemical & Materials Engineering
1725 Ex Parte Woehrle et al 13704610 - (D) DENNETT 102/103 Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP CULLEN, SEAN P
1745 Ex Parte Broad 12851569 - (D) OWENS 102/103 112(2) THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY MAZUMDAR, SONYA
1764 Ex Parte Golchert et al 13058364 - (D) McMANUS 103 OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. REDDY, KARUNA P
Tech Center 2100 Computer Architecture and Software
2174 Ex Parte Bilinski et al 14059550 - (D) NAPPI 103 Morris & Kamlay LLP / 030120 CHOI, DAVID E
2182 Ex Parte Guillemin et al 13543673 - (D) HAGY 103 Seed IP Law Group LLP/ST (EP ORIGINATING) MEHTA, JYOTI
Tech Center 3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License & Review
3622 Ex Parte Farahat et al 13185969 - (D) MEDLOCK 102/103 112(1)/101 BGL/Yahoo Holdings MUNSON, PATRICIA H
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3737 Ex Parte Partanen et al 13879412 - (D) ADAMS 112(1) 112(1)/112(2)/112(4) Intrinsic Law Corp. SMITH, RUTH S
3761 Ex Parte Austin et al 13567630 - (D) HOELTER 103 Simpson & Simpson, PLLC TOWNSEND, GUY K
