{"id":8036,"date":"2016-08-13T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:05:49","slug":"secondary-indicia-of-patent-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8036","title":{"rendered":"Secondary Indicia of Patent Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it was the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LendingTree v. Zillow<\/span> in which the patent owner mentioned &#8220;secondary indicia of patent eligibility.&#8221; \u00a0Because the Supreme Court has conflated patent eligibility with obviousness in its Bilski-Mayo-Alice line of cases, I suppose it is a natural evolution for the patent bar to begin to rely on traditional 103 arguments to establish patent eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>The argument would be that if the elements of a claim as an ordered combination recite something that has achieved, for example, commercial success, then the claimed invention must not have been well-understood, routine, and conventional, as of the date of its invention. \u00a0Therefore, the nature of the claim has been transformed into a patent eligible application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it was the oral argument of LendingTree v. Zillow in which the patent owner mentioned &#8220;secondary indicia of patent eligibility.&#8221; \u00a0Because the Supreme Court has conflated patent eligibility with obviousness in its Bilski-Mayo-Alice line of cases, I suppose it is a natural evolution for the patent bar to begin to rely on traditional [&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\/8036"}],"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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}