comparison that's called for the claim is a comparison of software versions now if i'd like to walk the the court through the sequence of events i think that helps us set the stage for the board's institution decision the board stated that this is the claim language is broad enough to encompass reprogramming by comparing operating system version its board also allows for reprogramming based on hardware person wearing clause was added just prior to allowance t m c it simply states that the specific version of programmable device in other words the hardware version indicates a version of an operating system and p m c saw that it clarified the claim a little bit but it didn't change the the fundamental feature of the claim or the fun of the operation the claim which is th comparison hardware versions is what triggers the reprogramming you'll observe that the examiner did not require similar amendments to the other steps in the claim such as the receiving step it talks about this this reprogramming signal that comes out would would would require a different alice's of the original plan now p m c didn't appeal the original claim here because there is a decision from from this court section one to one decision that made that  point less but we are appealing the refusal to answer the substitute claims and there are factual and thank construction predicates that if i could just touch on the fourth construction and how flies in the face of the inference of governance ok first let's talk about the specification the specification refers to excuse me to the preamble preamble to claim one refers to a version of a programmable device that includes a signal detector of memory and a receiver there's no reference to software or an operating system there so the program programmable devices defined in the preamble as hardware and then in the body of the plane in the first limitation which were first back to said specific version of programmable device that's an antecedent reference to the preamble so we know in that first limitation that the version of approach programmable device is a hard worker and that's the specification that's the plain language itself now if we look at the specification but nowhere does the specification disclose free programming devices based on the comparison of operating system versions it is absolutely not  only contradicted by the specification but it commits the cardinal sent of reading out every limit every embodiment in the specifications corresponding to the claim so the specification doesn't because we know that that is an incorrect and that analysis from a legal standpoint and claim construction is not with the specification does not preclude or prohibit the broadest reasonable construction and where it is focused on what the what  comparing operating system versus to reprogram and let me let me like make a little last point the boards the boards analysis is really focused on is really focused on a little bit of a thought experiment board says because there's no support for its construction of the specification you know the preamble contradicts it the board says well you know there may be occasions where yelling an operating system version might indicate the hardware  and so i know the operating system for the operating system version right that doesn't tell me the hardware version i don't know whether the hardware is a p c a p c jr a commodore sixty four it cetera so the board promise which was which essentially was the foundation for its construction i may please the court this is a very very limited appeal raising the resident card a problem they have two major problems before we even get to the point construction number one we do have the want to one final judgment and their argument claim construction is an attempt to make the claims the same as the claim that was invalidated under want to one that's that's their goal you need so it's not too logical as to not to enlarge it exactly they  want to be the same they say it's just like the original claim one under their claim construction but want to one is final and done as a threshold issue which coincidentally and commiserate which praise the earlier argument that was a great case showing that want to one can be dealt with even when it wasn't the basis of the board's opinion i was an ex parte case but the same rule applies here in addition they can't as you just heard and did not appeal to one of three  invalidity so we know the original claims are invalid under one hundred three so you would think someone who is arguing for a new claim construction would at least at least address in their opening brief how that claim construction would in any way lead to any possible difference in outcome under want to one or one of three particularly here when the board made findings on the one of three that the prior art shows either hardware or software and they did not challenge that finding at all so there's really no place for them to go other than to raise what they think is a error by the board on claim construction and judge dyker actually right in this case they agreed to  twenty five word amendment offered by the examiner and that amendment is on appendix eight hundred fifty one and that was years and years after the specification was written so it seems their argument is that the amendment they agreed to isn't really consistent with a lot of the speth that might be true a lot much of the spac isn't really considered fully consistent with that amendment but the board found  nothing the specification and enough said by pm c to show that this weren clause should be given primacy in the claimed construction and that's because when you file a motion to  you are required to show where the amended claim is supported by this fact and in this case they had just said that the specification did in fact support the entire amended claim clean fifty three and the board use that against them to say look you pointed to what you thought from the specs supported using the operating system comparison now i want to show to just simplify this is equally as possible on page thirty four of the read brief we color coded the amended claim and regard less of how the claim construction goes what the board recognized and which is undeniably true and to which they have no response is that the amendment in red interrupted the editing basis from the yellow the yellow used to that no longer includes the version referred to in the green so this is a good example where adding words to a claim can in fact broaden it when you add a brand new component that interrupts an assumed basis of the later wearing clause that is shown pictorially on page thirty four so regardless of claim construction there's still no answer from pm see how this amendment in read did not in  brought in the claim severely changes and they bear the burden of proof on that legal question if there can be a burden of proof on showing the appropriateness of the m m they bear that burden to show that the claim is support and that the claim did not add matter and that the claim was not broader and awful products explain that those are threshold issues before you even get the patentability and they couldn't get out of the box because they had no explanation for why this claim was not brought up even regardless of claim construction and the board recognize in their opinion on a seventy four that the amendment interrupted the antecedent basis so the board recognized the problem this caused and separating what they agree are two different things specific version and specific apparatus version so they lose one to one and one of three that never showed how does a mammoth effect want to one they don't show how these amendments affect one of three they don't show how they didn't broaden regardless of claim construction and they really have no answer to your question judged by why did they agree to the twenty five words examiner amendment which made it explicit that to make and he didn't point out anywhere in the specification warrant described reprogramming a device by comparing operating system versions he didn't dispute this was that the specification disclose reprogramming by comparing hard the claims are different subsets to claim fifty three adds significant lag language to it that is narrowing piece of the original claim one whether that claim is construed according to the board's  comparison of hardware versions to reprogram then the only way the substitute claims are broadening is because they don't recite comparing operating system versions pursuant to the board's erroneous claim construction so that so that the argument made that the substitute claims are really broadening is simply simply a reference to the claim construction problem that underlies this whole exercise station that's a factual determination the board didn't address it and with all due respect this corps shouldn't substitute a factual finding that the board never never  made as to the it's like to add one more point to the sexual one o one decision there is a reference to judicata and i believe that's a reference to the one of one decision that was a d by this court if you look at the read the reasoning of judge andrews in that in that case he referred to the original play one as required checking to see if a new version of operating systems is required and if so then updating the operating system so so his framework for what i want purposes was based hardware systems make it any more illogical it's still just a comparison and then updating it because he because it wasn't not conventional routine or well understood at the time not remotely remember the part somewhat in addition to comparing the hardware is not routine all the equipment here is routine and conventional and i believe under the pace car the inquiry under step two is whether the operations can i just ask one more question if it's an abstract idea you think that if it's an non routine or conventional abstract idea the knots pattern eligible isn't that inconsistent with every else and a bunch of other cases from the square and supreme court where we recognize that the specific method is new in ariel's i think it's a revolutionary method but it's none the less abstract and nothing apart from that abstract discussion let's assume that the plan is directed from the track idea put a substitute plate fifty three the we still have to go to step two and evaluate whether something more has been added to claim fifty three added on top of the certainly if you sweep all of the plan language into the abstract idea that what's left in step two there's nothing left except to to evaluate would on amazon i mean if all the claim is an abstract idea and has made a fine the board has not made a finding on what abstract idea lurks under this claim amazon has argued that the abstract idea that's a legal question is totally grid is updating 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