CAFC uses an analogy to a "cookie jar" to rule against appellant Thought

The relevant portion of a "system" claim contained the
language


a first adapter responsive to the object application
including an application bridge
receiving an object comprising object attributes
and an object name from the object
application, said first adapter
extracting the object attributes and the object
name from the object to effect packing
of the object attributes and the object
name as data, said first adapter unpacking
the data to effect instantiating the object
attributes and the object name into a
new object; and


From the decision:


Just as a child might “extract” all of the
cookies from the cookie jar and leave the cookie jar itself
behind, the first adapter may extract all of the data
contained within the object but must leave behind the
data container of the object itself. Taking, or making an
exact copy of, the container and all of the contents held
within the container is not extracting the contents from
the container