State of Iowa v. Jerry Leon Thompson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that claims were directed to an abstract idea because they did “not improve the functioning of the computer, make it operate more efficiently, or solve any technological problem”
• “[P]lacing an order based on displayed market infor- mation is a fundamental economic practice.”
• “[t]he abstract idea itself cannot supply the invention concept, ‘no matter how groundbreaking the advance.’” (internal citations omitted)
• “The abstract idea itself cannot supply the inventive concept, no matter how groundbreaking the advance.”
• “[t]he abstract idea itself cannot supply the invention concept, ‘no matter how groundbreaking the advance.’” (internal citations omitted)
• claimed steps on “routing data gathering, and displaying information” not eligible, despite “recit[ing] a purportedly new arrange- ment of generic information that assists traders in pro- cessing information more quickly”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).