Takeaway: Improvement arguments succeeded in overturning § 101 subject-matter eligibility rejections of claims relating to Internet-based directed-advertising under circumstances involving broadcast TV and simultaneous chat room participation. The arguments had failed to persuade at step one of the Alice framework but
Takeaway: The Patent Board reversed § 101 Alice rejections of commercial transaction processing claims when the claims relied on a “time cell” and thus presented an improvement of the “relevant technology.”
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Ex parte Berstis
Appeal No. 2016-007050; Application No. 12/366,951;
Takeaway: The PTAB reversed Alice rejections of pure-software random digital generation claims, crediting the appellants’ improvement argument in the face of examiner criticism of that argument and even in the absence of a reply brief addressing that criticism.
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Ex
Takeaway: The applicants appealed subject-matter eligibility rejections made under 35 U.S.C. § 101, alleging that the tissue volume monitoring claims were directed to a law of nature and an abstract idea. Persuaded by the appellants’ improvement arguments, the PTAB reversed the
