Authority of the D.C. Council Under the Home Rule Act to Amend the Schedule of Heights of Buildings

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• holding that claim to a specific technique for improving computer security against unauthorized use of a program was not directed to an abstract idea
• holding that a patent related to computer security was patent-eligible because it was directed to a “specific technique that departs from earlier approaches” which relied on specific and unique aspects of a computer’s Basic Input Output System (BIOS)
• holding “non-abstract computer-functionality improvement” patent eligible if “done by a specific technique that departs from earlier approaches to solve a specific computer problem”
• holding an invention patentable at step one where the claim 16 “specifically identifies how th[e] functional improvement is effectuated in an assertedly 17 unexpected way”
• recognizing “overlaps between . . . step one and 3 step two considerations”
• finding patent- eligible an improvement to computer storage and security using a specific technique in a specific, modifiable part of the BIOS memory

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