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"Patented, patentable, math." - nope - you're just not paying attention to the Supremes | 381 comments | Create New Account
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"Patented, patentable, math." - nope - you're just not paying attention to the Supremes
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 01:27 PM EDT

Thankfully, in Abele, the USPTO Board of Appeals was paying attention to the Supremes.

The USPTO Appeals Board tied those instructions into the physical aspect of the device. From the ruling:

36. Computed tomography apparatus comprising:

means for measuring the values of the line integrals of an incoherent propagation along a plurality of paths through a region of interest in a body;

calculating means, connnected to receive the values of said integrals from said means for measuring and to calculate, at each of a number of reconstruction points in said region of interest, the difference between the local value of a characteristic at said point and the average value of said characteristics in a local region surrounding said point; and

means for reconstructing a representation of features in said region which function to receive said calculated values from said calculating means and to display the calculated value for each reconstruction point at a point in a picture which corresponds to said reconstruction point.
And the Court's examination:
Indeed, the step of “measuring * * * line integrals of an incoherent propagation * * * through * * * a body” explicitly requires the same steps implicit in claim 6, viz., production of a beam and detection of the beam after it is attenuated by passing through a body.
Asterisk highlighting in the original ruling. Bolding mine. That dreaded physical component again.

Without the physical my humble conclusion is that they would have failed equally to claims 5 and 7 as well.

RAS

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