(United States Federal Circuit) - In an infringement action involving patents that relate to automating part of a preexisting 3-D animation method,the District Court's grant of judgment on the pleadings under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c) that the asserted claims of the patent are invalid, is reversed where the ordered combination of claimed steps, or using unconventional rules that relate sub-sequences of phonemes,timings, and morph weight sets, or is not directed to an summary conception and is therefore patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.
S.
C. section 101.
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