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What constitutes "significantly more" in the Alice test?

3/20/2018

 
As taken from the January 15th LSIPR Newsletter:

"The claim must include additional features to ensure that it describes a process or product that applies the exception in a meaningful way, such that it is more than a drafting effort designed to monopolise the exception. Examples qualifying as “significantly more” include:

• Improvements to another technology or technical field;
• Improvements to the functioning of a computer itself;
• Applying the judicial exception with, or by use of, a particular machine;  
• Effecting a transformation or reduction of a particular article to a different state or thing;
• Adding a specific limitation other than what is well-understood, or routine in the field; and
• Adding unconventional steps that confine the claim to a particular useful application. "

The entire article can be found here:

www.sternekessler.com/sites/default/files/2017-11/LSIPR_Jan15_AfterALice.pdf

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