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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 02:32 PM EDT |
There are also several transformations:
a floating-point number memory register representation IS CONVERTED to a
floating-point register representation;
the converted floating-point number IS ROUNDED;
a new floating-point value IS GENERATED BY performing an arithmetic computation
upon said rounded number; and
the resulting new floating-point register value IS CONVERTED to a floating-point
memory register representation.
How many transformations does a fella gotta do?
The Supreme Court precedent and recent Federal Circuit decisions often cited on
Groklaw do not require a physical transformation. There is no requirement that
there be a physical transformation of a physical article. At 450 U.S. 192, in
Diamond v. Diehr, the Supreme Court indicated that --when a claim containing a
mathematical formula implements or applies that formula in a structure or
process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the
patent laws were designed to protect (e.g., transforming or reducing an article
to a different state or thing), then the claims satisfies the requirements of
§101. In this regard, we note that the Court could have used the word
“physical” and did not.
Moreover, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary principal Copyright 1961,
Copyright 1993 by Meriam-Webster, Inc., indicates that article means inter alia:
3a: a particular item of business…6a: a thing of a particular class or kind
as distinct from a thing of another class or kind.
It is respectfully submitted each of the recited floating-point numbers are
particular items of business and/or are things of a particular class or kind as
distinct from a thing of another class or kind. Accordingly, the transformation
of floating point number meets the requirement.
The same dictionary indicates that a “thing” is 1a: a matter of concern…2b: a
product of work or activity…3a: whatever exists or is conceived to exist as a
separate entity or as a distinct and individual quality, fact, or idea…5: an
object or entity that cannot or need not be precisely designated…6a: DETAIL,
QUALITY, POINT, PARTICULAR…7: something that is said, told or thought…9: an
artistic composition.
It is respectfully submitted that a floating point number is a product of work
or activity. It is respectfully submitted a floating point number exists or at
a minimum, is conceived to exist as a separate entity or as a distinct
individual quality, fact or idea or as a separable or distinguishable object of
thought.
For at least the foregoing additional reasons, transformation of floating point
number meets the requirement.
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