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It's Not Exactly New...
Authored by: lnuss on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 01:10 PM EDT
Even IF (contrary to fact) all else made it eligible, the fact that this
procedure has been around and in use for decades prior to the patent being
applied for should make it ineligible.



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Larry N.

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You seem overconfident
Authored by: scav on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 02:11 PM EDT
How much would you bet this will be appealed *successfully*?

Referring to a "memory register format" or whatever is not the same as
the claim
actually referring to a specific machine. And if the machine is a
general-purpose
computer, the claim fails for not inventing anything new.

Also, your assertion that the claim is not abstract: unsupported, or you have a

weird definition of abstract.

We'll see how it goes.

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redoubled his siege of Antarctica to extort tribute from the penguins.

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memory register representation and floating-point register reA Quick And Significant Defeat ~mw
Authored by: tknarr on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 02:23 PM EDT

You're forgetting the holding in Dealertrack, where the court held that just using a general-purpose machine wasn't, in and of itself, enough to satisfy the criteria.

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