The USPTO is determined to continue its mission to provide clear and predictable patent rights in accordance with this rapidly evolving area of the law, and to that end, may issue further guidance in the future.

In Exergen Corp. v. Kaz USA, Inc., Nos. 2016-2315, 2016-2341, 2018 WL 1193529, at *1 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 8, 2018) (non-precedential), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a motion for judgment as a matter oflaw of patent ineligibility (thus

Ltd v. Merial LLC, 818 F.3d 1369, 1377 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (supporting the position that amplification was well-understood, routine, conventional for purposes of subject matter eligibility by observing that the patentee expressly argued during prosecution of the application that amplification was a technique readily practiced by those skilled in the art to overcome the rejection of the claim under 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph); see also Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GMBH v. Am. Hoist & Derrick Co., 730 F.2d 1452, 1463 (Fed. Cir. 1984) ("[T]he specification need not disclose what is well known in the art.

An appropriate publication could include a book, manual, review article, or other source that describes the state of the art and discusses what is well-known and in common use in the relevant industry.

v. AB Fortia, 774 F.2d 1104, 1108-09 (Fed. Cir. 1985) (paper orally presented at a scientific meeting and distributed upon request); Jn re Wyer, 655 F.2d 221(CCPA1981) (patent application laid open to public inspection).

One of five general attributes of a subject or class, traditionally including genus, species, prop- erty, differentia, and accident.

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As the Federal Circuit determined, these limitations do not amount to significantly more when “taken individually, [because they] recite generic computer, network and Internet components, none of which is inventive by itself.” However, ...

This memorandum provides a discussion of two of the recent decisions identifying eligible subject matter, namely McRO, Inc. dba Planet Blue v. Bandai Namco Games America Inc., 120 USPQ2d 1091 (Fed. Cir. 2016) and BASCOM Global Internet Services v. AT&T Mobility LLC, 827 F .3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2016).

As explained in the specification, human artists did not use the claimed rules, and instead relied on subjective determinations to set the morph weights and manipulate the animated face to match pronounced phonemes.

In contrast, the court in Affinity Labs ofTX v. DirecTVrelied on the specification's failure to provide details regarding the manner in which the invention accomplished the alleged improvement when holding the claimed methods of delivering broadcast content to cellphones directed to an abstract idea.

The BASCOM court agreed that the additional elements were generic computer, network, and Internet components that did not amount to significantly more when considered individually, but explained that the district court erred by failing to recognize that when combined, an inventive concept may be found in the non-conventional and non-generic arrangement of the additional elements, i.e., the installation of a filtering tool at a specific location, remote from the end-users, with customizable filtering features specific to each end user (note that the term "inventive concept" is often used by the courts to describe additional element(s) that amount to significantly more than a judicial exception).

Other decisions, however, do not consider the absence of preemption as conferring patent eligibility (e.g., Synopsys, Fair Warning, Intellectual Ventures v. Symantec, Sequenom, and OIP).