271patent: Bilski at the BPAI - What a Mess (Part 1) http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163770/271patent:bilski-at-the-bpai-what-a-mess-part-1 Posts in the discussion thread "271patent: Bilski at the BPAI - What a Mess (Part 1)" - Claim: (Ex Parte Borenstein) A method for providing catalog information for presentation to a user of a store in an electronic commerce system, comprising the steps of... BPAI: while the storage of information in independent claim 1 could arguably be done as a mental process, the recitation of a structured relationship between multiple stores that requires “path information” inherently implies that this information must be stored on a computer or database. This “particular” computer or database is sufficient structure to meet the machine prong of the machine-or-transformation test of In re Bilski. As independent claim 15 recites a computer program product, it is not a method claim that must be analyzed under In re Bilski. http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163770#post-513227 271patent: Bilski at the BPAI - What a Mess (Part 1) http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-163770/271patent:bilski-at-the-bpai-what-a-mess-part-1#post-513227 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:47 +0000 zoobab 2946 "Claim: (Ex Parte Borenstein) A method for providing catalog information for presentation to a user of a store in an electronic commerce system, comprising the steps of… BPAI: while the storage of information in independent claim 1 could arguably be done as a mental process, the recitation of a structured relationship between multiple stores that requires “path information” inherently implies that this information must be stored on a computer or database. This “particular” computer or database is sufficient structure to meet the machine prong of the machine-or-transformation test of In re Bilski. As independent claim 15 recites a computer program product, it is not a method claim that must be analyzed under In re Bilski."

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