{"id":2281,"date":"2010-04-29T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:00:59","slug":"beauregard-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Beauregard claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be of interest to prosecutors who write software patent applications that one of the claims at issue in yesterday&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oracle v. Parallel Networks<\/span>, 2009-1183 (Fed. Cir. April 28, 2010)\u00a0 decision concerned a Beauregard claim.\u00a0 Perhaps the Federal Circuit has had a chance to review other Beauregard claims; but, other than in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ariba v. Emptoris<\/span>, 2009-1230 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 8, 2010)\u00a0this is the only one that I&#8217;ve noticed.<\/p>\n<p>While method, apparatus, and Beauregard (article of manufacture) claims were at issue, the court selected\u00a0the Beauregard claim as the representative claim in its opinion.\u00a0 Judge Rader wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Parallel Networks asserts that certain Oracle products infringe claims 1\u20135 and 7\u201311 of the \u2019554 patent and claims 2 and 16 of the \u2019335 patent. Claim 11 of the \u2019554 patent is representative:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A machine readable medium having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions, which when executed by a computer system, cause said computer system to perform the steps of:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">routing a dynamic web page generation request from a Web server to a page server, said page server receiving said request and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">releasing said Web server to process other requests <\/span>wherein said routing step further includes the steps of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intercepting said request <\/span>at said Web server, routing said request from said Web server to a dispatcher, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dispatching said request to said page server<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">processing said request, said processing being performed by said page server while said Web server concurrently processes said other requests; and<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">dynamically generating a Web page, said Web page including data retrieved from one or more data sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019554 patent col.10 ll.24\u201341 (emphases added). All asserted claims have the &#8220;releasing&#8221; limitation, the &#8220;intercepting&#8221; limitation, and the &#8220;dispatching&#8221; limitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The link to the court&#8217;s opinion is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1183.pdf\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be of interest to prosecutors who write software patent applications that one of the claims at issue in yesterday&#8217;s Oracle v. Parallel Networks, 2009-1183 (Fed. Cir. April 28, 2010)\u00a0 decision concerned a Beauregard claim.\u00a0 Perhaps the Federal Circuit has had a chance to review other Beauregard claims; but, other than in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}