Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This in response to application filed 11/27/24. Claims 1 – 20 have been examined and are pending.
Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1 – 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter.
Regarding Step 1:
Claims 1 – 20 are directed to a method and recites steps of:
(a) receiving, by a computing device, a selection of a package and of a target tenant environment into which the package is to be imported, the target tenant environment being one of a plurality of tenant environments in a multi-tenant networked system, the package including customization data for a plurality of applications;
(b) and generating, by the computing device, a comparison report indicating corresponding data items of the customization data in the package that are different from data of the target tenant environment.
Regarding Step 2A Prong 1:
Steps (a), and (b) are mental/abstract processes (i.e. receiving/ generating) which can be performed in the human mind or by a human by using pen and paper).
Regarding Step 2A Prong 2:
Claim 1 recites elements, i.e. receiving, by a computing device, a selection of a package and of a target tenant environment into which the package is to be imported, the target tenant environment being one of a plurality of tenant environments and generating, by the computing device, a comparison report indicating corresponding data items of the customization.
These steps are merely recited at a high level of generality. Thus, the claims as a whole do not integrate the exception into a practical application.
Regarding Step 2B:
The identified additional elements do not amount significantly more than the judicial exception.
The same analysis applies here in 2B, i.e., receiving and generating does not integrate a judicial exception into a practical application.
Therefore, claims are ineligible.
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/CHUCK O KENDALL/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2192
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