context: The line between computer-centric problems and commonplace business problems is often blurred in the context of Internet commerce. Nonetheless, courts have definitively stated that an otherwise abstract idea is not rendered patent-eligible by reciting general purpose technological components.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 772 F.3d 709, 715-16
citation_a.parenthetical: finding that claims which merely recited the abstract idea of using advertising as a currency as applied to the particular technological environment of the Internet were not patent-eligible
citation_a.sentence: Alice, 134 S.Ct. at 2357 (holding that the introduction of a computer into the claims does not render the idea patent-eligible); see also Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, 772 F.3d 709, 715-16 (Fed.Cir. 2014) (finding that claims which merely recited the abstract idea of using advertising as a currency as applied to the particular technological environment of the Internet were not patent-eligible).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 134 S.Ct. 2357, 2357
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that the introduction of a computer into the claims does not render the idea patent-eligible
citation_b.sentence: Alice, 134 S.Ct. at 2357 (holding that the introduction of a computer into the claims does not render the idea patent-eligible); see also Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, 772 F.3d 709, 715-16 (Fed.Cir. 2014) (finding that claims which merely recited the abstract idea of using advertising as a currency as applied to the particular technological environment of the Internet were not patent-eligible).