Appeal 2007-1305
Application 09/725,394
1 144, and Fig. 11: 350). The presence of these elements within Schneider
2 is not challenged by the Appellant.
3 10. Schneider shows searching for patents that have expired prematurely
4 (Schneider, col. 16, ll. 6-9).
5 11. A patent grants rights to the patent owner to exclude others from
6 making, using, offering to sell, or selling the patented invention.
7 35 U.S.C. § 271. Therefore, an expiration of a patent transfers the rights
8 to practice the claimed subject matter to the public.
9 Fucarile
10 12. Fucarile describes a system that licenses the content and the access to a
11 software component or plug-in running on a client computer (Fucarile,
12 col. 3, ll. 2-18).
13 13. Fucarile describes a licensing system in which the license for licensed
14 content is embedded within the content (Fucarile, Fig. 2:201 & 203).
15 14. Fucarile’s license distinguishes between commercial and non-
16 commercial use (Fucarile, col. 5, ll. 23-31).
17 15. This license is encoded within a license form (Fucarille, Fig. 3; col. 7,
18 l. 6 - col. 8, l. 36).
19 16. A user obtains information from Fucarile’s system by sending a request
20 for content to a server, and the server returns the content including the
21 embedded license form. A plug-in program on the user’s computer
22 scans the content for the license prior to interpreting the content, and
23 passes the license form on to a license server for license validation. The
24 plug-in program only continues with the interpretation of the content if
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