Step 42 involves a possible premature termination of participation in the program, in which the beneficiary may become obligated to reimburse the funding source for any advance from resources other than the future retirement benefits.
Petitioner disagrees, and argues that the claimed invention may be “performed on pen and paper, as consumers were able to deposit Social Security or retirement payments long before computers.” Reply 8 (citation omitted).
If an inventor acts as his or her own lexicographer, the definition must be set forth in the specification “with reasonable clarity, deliberateness, and precision.” Renishaw PLC v. Marposs Societa’ per Azioni, 158 F.3d 1243, 1249 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (citations omitted).
The legislative history of the AIA also makes it clear that Congress intended the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“Office”) to consider challenges brought under § 101 for post-grant reviews.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court determined that “[l]ike the risk hedging in Bilski [v. Kappos, 561 U.S. 593 (2010)], the concept of intermediated settlement is ‘a fundamental economic practice long prevalent in our system of commerce.’” Alice, 134 S.Ct.