DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to the communication(s) filed on 11/26/2024.
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 .
Claim 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 because the claim(s) as a whole, considering all claim elements both individually and in combination, do not amount to significantly more than an abstract idea. The claim(s) is/are directed to the abstract idea of gathering and calculating data. The additional element(s) or combination of elements in the claim(s) other than the abstract idea per se amount(s) to no more than: recitation of generic computer structure and limitations generally linking the use of the judicial exception to a particular technological environment that serves to perform generic computer functions that are well-understood, routine, and conventional activities previously known to the pertinent industry. Recitation of a structure to implement previous routine in the industry is not patentable. There are no meaningful limitations beyond linking the use to a particular technology. Viewed as a whole, these additional claim element(s) do not provide meaningful limitation(s) to transform the abstract idea into a patent eligible application of the abstract idea such that the claim(s) amounts to significantly more than the abstract idea itself. Therefore, the claim(s) are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Additionally, the claims are merely directed to an abstract idea of gathering and calculating data. The claims do not recite improvements to another technology or technical field, improvements to the functioning of the computer itself, applying a judicial exception with, or by the use of, a particular machine, effecting a transformation or reduction of a particular article to a different state or thing, adding specific limitation other than what is well-understood, routine, and conventional in the field, or adding unconventional steps that confine the claim to a particular useful application, or other meaningful limitations beyond generally linking the use of the judicial exception to a particular technological environment. Therefore, considering the claims as a whole, the abstract idea of gathering and calculating data does not amount to significantly more than the abstract idea.
Conclusion
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/XIAO EN MO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3747