The Software IP Report
A Look at Patent Applications That Survived Alice
By Charles Bieneman
06/13/2017
Categories: Patent Eligibility, Software Patents, The Software IP Report
Achieving success in overcoming rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the Mayo/Alice patent-eligibility test is no different than achieving success in other areas of law – or life – draw lessons from those that have gone successfully before you. In that spirit, the National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) has put together a list of over 300 patents whose file histories mention the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. (You have to join NAPP to get access.)
A perusal of this list is a helpful reminder that the death of software and business methods patents has been somewhat (if not greatly) exaggerated. To give you an idea, here is a selected sample of titles of patents that have issued in just the last few months – after Alice and the specter of Section 101 patent-ineligibility was raised during prosecution.
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Pat. No. |
Title |
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9569750 |
Utilizing a Social Network Account to Provide Additional Functionality to a Gaming Network Account |
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9575205 |
UNCERTAINTY-BASED FREQUENCY-SELECTED INVERSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC GEOPHYSICAL DATA |
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9576431 |
Systems, Apparatuses and Methods for Enhancing Gaming Experiences |
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9581624 |
CORONA AVOIDANCE ELECTRIC POWER LINE MONITORING, COMMUNICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM |
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9582489 |
Orthographic Error Correction Using Phonetic Transcription |
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9582551 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION, DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF DISPARATE DATA |
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9582815 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING USER INTERESTS BASED ON MOBILE CALL LOGS |
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9588241 |
FREQUENCY-VARYING FILTERING OF SIMULTANEOUS SOURCE SEISMIC DATA |
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9589295 |
PURCHASING SYSTEMS AND METHODS |
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9589535 |
SOCIAL MOBILE GAME FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS |
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9592449 |
A GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GAMING FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF APPEARANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AVATAR |
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9595271 |
COMPUTER SYSTEM EMPLOYING SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR DETECTION OF NON-SPEECH AUDIO |
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9596004 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATING PERSONAL HEALTH DATA IN A NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT |
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9600838 |
PROVIDING ELECTRONIC CONTENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH A REQUEST FOR PHYSICAL CONTENT |
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9619492 |
DATA MIGRATION |
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9619969 |
USING PLAYER INFORMATION IN WAGERING GAME ENVIRONMENTS |
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9622324 |
GEOLOCATION AID AND SYSTEM |