Patent for Efficiently Monitoring and Transmitting Patient Data Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101​

The court denied defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiffs’ patent for efficiently monitoring and transmitting patient data encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims did not lack an inventive concept. "Claim 9 does not introduce the concept of remote patient monitoring, but it purports to improve upon prior art in the mobile cardiac elemetry field by taking advantage of 'a communications device which selectively establishes a communications link between the remote monitoring unit and the central unit.' In so doing, Claim 9 purports to 'adopt[] a new data transfer architecture with improved selectivity of data transmission but retention of the data accumulation capability to build the patient history and also the emergency capability to assist the patient on an urgent basis when needed.' . . . Claim 9 purports to improve upon the previous technology, which did not allow for selectivity in determining the data set that would be transmitted to the central unit. . . . [T]he patent is 'more than a drafting effort to monopolize the [abstract idea].' Therefore, when read as an ordered combination, the court cannot determine as a matter of law that Claim 9 lacks an inventive concept."

CardioNet, LLC et al v. InfoBionic, Inc., 1-15-cv-11803 (MAD May 4, 2017, Order) (Talwani, USDJ)