by Dennis Crouch
The key language from the Federal Circuit's most recent pronouncement in Ultramercial v. Hulu (Fed. Cir. 2014) is as follows:
We do not agree with Ultramercial that the addition of merely novel or non-routine components to the claimed idea necessarily turns an abstraction into something concrete. In any event, any novelty in implementation of the [abstract] idea is a factor to be considered only in the second step of the Alice analysis. . . . [And, the Internet] is a ubiquitous information-transmitting medium, not a novel machine. And adding a computer to otherwise conventional steps does not make an invention patent-eligible. Any transformation from the use of computers or the transfer of content between computers is merely what computers do and does not change the analysis.
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