{"id":127,"date":"2014-07-11T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-07-12T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T15:29:23","slug":"any-tangible-thing-under-the-sun-made-by-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Any [Tangible] Thing Under the Sun Made by Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Digitech Image Technologies, LLC v. Electronics for Imaging, Inc.<\/em>, [2013-1600](Fed. Cir. 2014), the Federal Circuit held that to qualify as a manufacture, the invention must be a tangible article that is given a new form, quality, property, or combination through man-made or artificial means.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s determination that a device profile (essentially a data set] for describing properties of\u00a0a device\u00a0was not patentable\u00a0subject matter under\u00a035 U.S.C. \u00a7101, saying &#8220;[d]ata in its ethereal, non-physical form is simply information that does not fall under any of the categories of eligible subject matter under section 101.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Digitech Image Technologies, LLC v. Electronics for Imaging, Inc., [2013-1600](Fed. Cir. 2014), the Federal Circuit held that to qualify as a manufacture, the invention must be a tangible article that is given a new form, quality, property, or combination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-law"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}