{"id":2429,"date":"2019-02-26T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2019-03-31T23:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T03:44:53","slug":"fact-that-invention-can-result-in-life-altering-consequences-is-laudable-but-it-does-not-render-it-any-less-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2429","title":{"rendered":"Fact that Invention can \u201cresult in life altering consequences,\u201d is Laudable, but it Does not Render it any Less Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/18-1284.Opinion.2-26-2019.pdf\">University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., v. General Electric Company<\/a>, [2018-1284] (February 26, 2019), the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination that  the claims of  U.S. Patent No. 7,062,251 are directed to ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the outset, the Federal Circuit determined that the University of Florida Research Foundation waived its sovereign immunity claims by suing General Electric in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The \u2019251 patent describes a method and system for integrating physiologic data from at least one bedside machine.    At <em>Alice<\/em> step one, the district court determined the claims are directed to the abstract idea of \u201ccollecting, analyzing, manipulating, and displaying data.\u201d  At Alice step two, the district court found that the claims did not recite an inventive concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Circuit agreed that the claims were ineligible, noting   the \u2019251 patent seeks to automate \u201cpen and paper methodologies\u201d to conserve human resources and minimize errors. The Federal Circuit said that it was a quintessential \u201cdo it on a computer\u201d patent: it acknowledges that data from bedside machines was previously collected, analyzed, manipulated, and displayed manually, and it simply proposes doing so with a computer. We have held such claims are directed to abstract ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Circuit noted that the fact that the automation can \u201cresult in life altering consequences,\u201d is laudable, but it does not render it any less abstract.  The Federal Circuit noted that neither the \u2019251 patent, nor its claims, explains how the drivers do the conversion that UFRF points to. The drivers are described in purely functional terms: they \u201cfacilitate data exchanges,\u201d \u201cconvert received data streams to a format independent of any particular bedside machine,\u201d \u201ctranslate the data  stream,\u201d \u201cinterpret data streams,\u201d \u201cfacilitate communications with the bedside machine,\u201d and \u201cinterpret [discrete] segments\u201d in a \u201cdata stream for the machine.\u201d   The Federal Circuit said that the  \u2019251 patent \u201cfails to provide any technical details for the tangible components, . . . instead predominately describ[ing] the system and methods in purely functional terms.\u201d  The Federal Circuit concluded that  at <em>Alice<\/em> step one that representative claim 1 is directed to the abstract idea of \u201ccollecting, analyzing, manipulating, and displaying data,\u201d and observing the claims fare no better at Alice step two.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., v. General Electric Company, [2018-1284] (February 26, 2019), the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination that the claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,062,251 are directed to ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2429\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}