Appeal 2006-1601
Application 09/828,579
(3)
Rejection of claims 11-15 under 35 U.S.C. § 101
Claims 11-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because the claimed
invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
(a)
Rejection of claims 11-15 under 35 U.S.C. § 101
Claim 11 is directed to “[a] computer readable medium” and Appellant
explicitly states “the computer-readable medium could even be paper”
(Specification 9:10). Therefore, we conclude the “medium” of claim 11 merely
requires information printed on paper. We have before us the classic “printed
matter” situation.
Additionally, with respect to the “logic” printed on the medium, Appellant
argues (Br. 10):
With respect to the term “logic” as used in claims 11-15, the “Modern
Dictionary of Electronics,” 6th Ed., 1984 defines logic as follows:
“Logic: . . . (3) In computers and information-
processing networks, the systematic method that governs
the operations performed on the information, usually
with each step influencing the one that follows.”
The use of the term “logic” in claims 11-15 is not contrary to the
above accepted meaning in the art for the term “logic”.
However, nothing in the claim precludes us from using an even broader definition
of “logic” where the logic is “a system of reasoning” that is not limited to a
computer or information processing network.11 A system of reasoning is merely a
systematic method that governs the reasoning performed on information, usually
with each step influencing the one that follows where the operations. Further,
11 The American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition, 1982, page 740.
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