OIP Technologies "Alice'd" at CAFC in Amazon case

The bottom line:


OIP Technologies alleges that Amazon.com infringes a
patent hat relates to a method of price optimization in an
e-commerce environment.
The district court granted
judgment on the pleadings, concluding that the patent
does not claim patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
Because we agree with the district court that the patent-
in-suit claims
no more than an abstract idea
coupled with routine data-gathering steps and conven-
tional computer activity,
we affirm.



The CAFC noted:


The district court reasoned that without the “insignificant
computer-based limitations,” the claims merely “describe
what any business owner or economist does in calculating
a demand curve for a given product.”



link: http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/12-1696.Opinion.6-9-2015.1.PDF