Simio, LLC v. FlexSim Software Products, Inc.

 
APPEAL NO.
20-1171
OP. BELOW
DCT
SUBJECT
Patent
AUTHOR
Prost

Question(s) Presented

  1. “Whether, in the field of computer simulation technology and pursuant to instruction provided by Arctic Cat and Graham, as well as Affinity Labs and Genetics, it is necessary to review the claimed limitation as a whole in light of both the specification and prosecution history of a patent to determine if providing a previously unavailable technique for altering the behavior of a simulated object in a manner that enables changes to a simulated instance of that object to be made in a span of simulated time satisfies the Alice test[.]”
  2. “[W]hether an unconventional solution to a technological problem in a computer environment that is not addressable by programming constitutes a patent eligible improvement to computer functionality under the Alice test and the precedential decisions applying this test, rather than only a benefit to user experience.”

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