Eligibility (aka Statutory Subject Matter)

Cites Diehr with approval. Thales Visionix (Fed. Cir.).

Suggests Alice conflicts with Diehr. TDE Petroleum Data Solutions (Fed. Cir.).

Eligible under § 101 if patentable under §§ 102, 103. BASCOM Global Internet Services (Fed. Cir.).

Mitigating risk using shadow recordds. Alice Corp. (S.Ct.).

Method of using a segment of BIOS memory to store license verification. Ancora (Fed. Cir.).

User Interface Design. Core Wireless Licensing (Fed. Cir.).

Computer virus scanning tool. Finjan (Fed. Cir.).

Collecting distributed network data for billing. Amdocs v. Openet Telecom (Fed. Cir.).

Self-referential database. Enfish (Fed. Cir.).

Detecting suspicious network activity and reporting same; and controlling data rate of a user device to reduce congestion. Multiple cases: SRI International and Network Congestion Solutions (Dist. Ct. of Delaware).

Graphical user interface. Trading Technologies Internat'l (N.D.Ill.).

Hybrid web pages “necessarily rooted in computer technology.” DDR Holdings (Fed. Cir.).

Storage medium. Ex Parte Hu (BPAI).

Identifying network flows is not abstract Packet Intelligence v. Netwscout Sys.

Advantages need not be artciulated in the claim Mentone Solutions LLC v. Elo Touch Solutions Inc. (Fec. Cir.)

Dual access luggage locks. Travel Sentry, Inc. v. David A. Tropp

Middle translation layer. Automation Middleware Solutions (Fed. Cir.).

Ground-breaking non-invasive fetal diagnostics. Ariosa Diagnostics (Fed. Cir.).

Establishing “link relationships” between document objects on a network, the link-relationships being “separate from the document objects.” Bascom Research LLC (N.D.Cal.).

Accessing documents using a memory-constrained device. Cloud Satchel (Dist. Dela.).

Forcing users to view a commercial to access media content. Ultramercial III (Fed. Cir.).

Bingo. Planet bingo. (Fed. Cir.).

Signals. In re Nujiten (Fed. Cir.). (See the Nuijten page.)

Mental processes, e.g., arbitration resolution. In re Comiskey (Fed. Cir.)

What is a business method patent Cxloyalty, Inc. v. Maritz Holdings (Fed. Cir.)

What the focus of the claimed advance or what the invention is directed to Simio, LLC v. Fexsim Software Products, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Camera having two sensors is abstract Yanbin Yu et al. v. Apple, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Statistical Models In re Bd. of Trs. of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (Fed. Cir.)

Claims are not required to articulate an advantage Uniloc USA Inc. et al. v. LG Electronics USA Inc. et al.

Heart monitor waveform filter CardioNet v. Infobionic (Fed. Cir.)