{"id":8800,"date":"2017-03-24T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2017-03-26T03:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:03:21","slug":"the-end-of-the-word-is-here-in-re-alsabah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8800","title":{"rendered":"The end of the word is here:  In re Alsabah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Alsabah<\/span>. \u00a0I hope the appellant requested rehearing in this rule 36 judgment. \u00a0The outcome seems inconsistent with the Federal Circuit&#8217;s statement in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Smith<\/span>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p><span>That is not to say that all inventions in the gaming arts would be foreclosed from patent protection under \u00a7 101. We could envisage, for example, claims directed to conducting a game using a new or original deck of cards potentially surviving step two of <\/span><em>Alice.<\/em><span> The Government acknowledged as much during oral argument. <\/span><em>See <\/em><span>Oral Argument at 14:59-15:31, <\/span><em>available at <\/em><span>http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/default.aspx?fl=2015-1664.mp3.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>In re Smith<\/em><span>, 815 F.3d 816, 819 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(cited excerpt of oral argument available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-1664-excerpt-1.mp3\">here<\/a>]).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From what I could discern from the oral argument, it is hard to believe that the claim as a whole recites routine, conventional, and well-understood subject matter, under Step 2 of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alice <\/span>or Step 2B of the PTO guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><span>The oral argument is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2016-1788.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Rule 36 judgment is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1788.Rule_36_Judgment.2-23-2017.1.PDF\">here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day is In re Alsabah. \u00a0I hope the appellant requested rehearing in this rule 36 judgment. \u00a0The outcome seems inconsistent with the Federal Circuit&#8217;s statement in In re Smith: That is not to say that all inventions in the gaming arts would be foreclosed from patent protection under \u00a7 101. [&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\/8800"}],"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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}