{"id":3853,"date":"2024-06-21T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2024-07-06T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T21:56:55","slug":"a-conventional-business-practice-executed-by-generic-computer-components-cannot-survive-alice-mayo-step-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"A Conventional Business Practice Executed by Generic Computer Components Cannot Survive Alice\/Mayo Step 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions-orders\/22-2275.OPINION.6-21-2024_2337276.pdf\">Beteiro, LLC v. Draftkings, Inc.<\/a>, [2022-2275, 2022-2277, 2022-2278, 2022-2279, 2022-2281, 2022-2283] (Fed. Cir. 2024), the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,965,920, 10,043,341, 10,147,266, and 10,255,755 for failure to state a claim based on the subject matter ineligibility of the patent claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of the patents share a common specification and title: \u201cApparatus and Method for Facilitating Gaming Activity and\/or Gambling Activity.\u201d The patents disclose a purported invention which \u201cfacilitate[s] gaming activity and\/or gambling activity at a gaming venue remote from the user\u2019s or individual\u2019s physical location\u201d such that the user can \u201cparticipate in live gaming activity and\/or gambling activity via a user communication device\u201d even if the user is not in the same location as the gaming venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At step one of the Alice\/Mayo test, the Federal Circuit agreed with the district court that Beteiro\u2019s claims are directed to the abstract idea of \u201cexchanging information concerning a bet and allowing or disallowing the bet based on where the user is located.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Circuit said that the claims exhibit several features that are well-settled indicators of abstractness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> First, the claims broadly recite generic steps of a kind frequently held to be abstract (detecting information, generating and transmitting a notification based on the information, receiving a message (bet request), determining (whether the bet is allowed based on location data), and processing information (allowing or disallowing the bet).  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second, the claims are drafted using largely (if not entirely) result-focused functional language, containing no specificity about how the purported invention achieves those results.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Third, there are several precedents where broadly analogous claims, such as those involving methods of providing particularized information to individuals based on their locations, to be abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fourth, the district court was able to persuasively analogize Beteiro\u2019s patent claims to longstanding \u201creal-world\u201d (\u201cbrick and mortar\u201d) activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At step two, the district court found that the representative claim failed to provide an inventive concept because it achieved the abstract steps \u201cusing several generic<br>computers \u2013 namely, a \u2018computer,\u2019 a \u2018communication link,\u2019 a \u2018first communication device,\u2019 a \u2018second communication device,\u2019 and a \u2018global positioning device.\u2019\u201d  The district court thus concluded that the claim that simply describes a conventional business practice executed by generic computer components cannot survive Step 2.  The Federal Circuit agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Beteiro, LLC v. Draftkings, Inc., [2022-2275, 2022-2277, 2022-2278, 2022-2279, 2022-2281, 2022-2283] (Fed. Cir. 2024), the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,965,920, 10,043,341, 10,147,266, and 10,255,755 for failure to state a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3853\">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-3853","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\/3853","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=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}