iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., No. 20-1477 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 13, 2021)

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iLife Technologies, Inc., appeals a Northern District of Texas order holding that claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 6,864,796 is directed to patent ineligible subject matter un- der 35 U.S.C. § 101. We affirm. BACKGROUND iLife owns the ’796 patent, which is directed to a motion detection system that evaluates relative movement of a body based on both dynamic acceleration ( e.g., vibration, body movement) and static acceleration (i.e., the position of a body relative to earth). See ’796 patent at Abstract; 1:62– 67; 3:26–32. Claim 1 recites: 1.