Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, No. 18-1971 (Fed. Cir. June 10, 2019)

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Morris Reese appeals from a grant of summary judg- ment by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California determining that certain claims of the asserted patent are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 . The asserted claims are directed to an abstract idea and the claim ele- ments do not transform the nature of the claims into a pa- tent-eligible invention. We affirm. BACKGROUND Morris Reese (“Reese”) owns and is the named inventor of U.S. Patent No. 6,868,150 (“the ’150 patent”).