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                 Appeal No. 94-2299                                                                                                                     
                 Application No. 07/623,324                                                                                                             


                 application.”           2                                                                                                              




























                          2In State St. Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Fin. Group,                                                                       
                 149 F.3d 1368, 1373, 47 USPQ2d 1596, 1601 (Fed. Cir. 1998),                                                                            
                 the Court abandoned the so-called Freeman-Walter-Abele test in                                                                         
                 favor of a more common sense approach of determining whether                                                                           
                 the claimed subject matter “constitutes a practical                                                                                    
                 application of a mathematical algorithm, formula, or                                                                                   
                 calculation.”                                                                                                                          
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