Business Methods Allowance Checklist

 

 

 

q       Useful, concrete, and tangible result.

 

q       Not a judicial exception per se

                                                         

q       Not just data per se.

 

q       Not simply automating a known or obvious                                  process on a computer or on the internet.

 

q       Not a computer program per se.

 

q       Not merely non-functional data on a storage                                     device, i.e., music on a cd.

 

q       If functional signal is being claimed, must be statically embedded in a computer-readable medium.

 

q       The feature that appears to distinguish over the prior art                  does not merely appear in a recitation of intended use, the            name or title of a feature or in non-functional descriptive                material.

 

q       Searches for analogous art related to the distinguishing                feature were conducted.

 

q       The meanings attributed to the words of the claim are the plain, ordinary, meanings unless criteria for a special definition have          been met.

 

 

 

*You must be able to answer yes to all of these statements.