Electric Power Group, LLC v. Alstom S.A., No. 15-1778 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 1, 2016)

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This case involves the eligibility for patenting, under 35 U.S.C. § 101, of certain claims of three of Electric Power Group, LLC’s patent s, U.S. Patent Nos. 7,233,843 ; 8,060,259; and 8,401,710 . Those patents describe and claim systems and methods f or performing real -time performance monitoring of an electric power grid by collecting data from multiple data sources, ana lyzing the data, and displaying the results . See ’710 patent, col. 1, lines 27–30; id., col. 2, lines 43 –49.