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· 6/10/2016

GATTI, SARAHANN v. SCHWAB, RODGER J.

Citations

  • 140 A.D.3d 1640
  • 33 N.Y.S.3d 618

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “considering historical usage information while inputting data” was an abstract idea
  • holding that considering 14 historical usage information while inputting data into a database is an abstract idea, even though 15 the type of database needed to perform the mechanism at issue was more specific than a generic 16 computer
  • noting that the self-referential table in Enfish \enabled programmers to construct databases in new ways that required less modeling and configuring of various tables prior to launch\
  • explaining that “a claim is not patent eligible merely because it applies an abstract idea in a narrow way”
  • holding that the abstract idea cannot supply the inventive concept
  • explaining that “an improvement to the information stored by a database is not equivalent to an improvement in the database’s function- ality”

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Judges: Whalen, Carni, Nemoyer, Troutman, Scudder

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