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Initial observations on the 7,706,348 patent | 282 comments | Create New Account
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Digital circuit....??? as opposed to.... physical circuit???
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 10:29 AM EDT

If you can't point to a physical embodiment, it's abstract. Abstract concepts are not supposed to be patentable.

Software - all forms - have no physical embodiment. A software representation of a circuit is still abstract.

RAS

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  • abstract and physical - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 04:42 PM EDT
    • Obfuscation - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 04:56 PM EDT
Initial observations on the 7,706,348 patent
Authored by: macliam on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 10:32 AM EDT
Have to dash.

Independent claim 1 is an apparatus claim.

Independent claim 10 is a method claim.

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Are you 'importing claim limitations from the specification'?
Authored by: macliam on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:39 PM EDT

See the information on Claim Interpretation on the PTO website.

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There was disagreement! Federal Circuit en banc, In Re Alappat, 1994
Authored by: macliam on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 02:01 PM EDT

There was disagreement! See the opinions of the Federal Circuit meeting en banc to consider In Re Alappat in 1994.

Moreover Alappat was the case that set the precedent that a programmed computer was a machine clearly patent-eligible under Section 101, provided that it was programmed to give rise to a useful, concrete and tangible result. This ruling granted near-automatic patent-eligibility to software applications.

You will find this explained in the CAFC opinion in AT&T Corp v. Excel Communications Inc..

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