DIGITECH IMAGE TECH'S v. ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING

Nos. 2013-1600, 2013-1601, 2013-1602, 2013-1603, 2013-1604, 2013-1605, 2013-1606, 2013-1607, 2013-1608, 2013-1609, 2013-1610, 2013-1611, 2013-1612, 2013-1613, 2013-1614, 2013-1615, 2013-1616, 2013-1617, 2013-1618.

758 F.3d 1344 (2014)

DIGITECH IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC., Sakar International, Inc. (doing business as Vivitar), General Imaging Company, Overstock.Com, Inc., Newegg, Inc., Newegg.Com, Inc., Xerox Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc., Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., and Toshiba America, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and Buy.Com, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, and B and H Foto and Electronics Corp., Defendant-Appellee, and Leaf Imaging, Ltd. (doing business as Mamiyaleaf), and Mamiya America Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and Leica Camera AG and Leica Camera, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and Fujifilm Corporation, Sigma Corporation, Sigma Corporation of America, Micro Electronics, Inc. (doing business as Micro Center), Pentax Ricoh Imaging Co., Ltd., Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation, Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ricoh Americas Corporation, and Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and Asus Computer International, and Asustek Computer, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and CDW LLC, Defendant-Appellee, and Victor Hasselblad AB and Hasselblad USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and Mamiya Digital Imaging Co., Ltd., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

July 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Edmonds , Collins, Edmonds, Pogorzelski, Schlather & Tower, PLLC, of Houston, TX, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Stephen F. Schlather and Shea Palavan.

Mark A. Lemley , Durie Tangri LLP, of San Francisco, CA, argued for all defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were Anthony S. Gabrielson and Tiffany D. Gehrke , Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, of Chicago, IL, for CDW LLC; Gregory S. Tamkin and Case Collard , Dorsey & Whitney LLP, of Denver, CO, for Buy.com, Inc.; Paul T. Meiklejohn and Mudit Kakar , Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, of Seattle, WA, for Toshiba Corporation, et al; William C. Rooklidge , Frank P. Cote , and Mark L. Blake , Jones Day, of Irvine, CA, for Electronics for Imaging, Inc.; Ezra Sutton , Ezra Sutton & Associates, P.A., of Woodbridge, NJ, for Sakar International, Inc.; Aaron Stiefel , Kaye Scholer, LLP, of New York, NY, for B and H Foto and Electronics Corp.; Michael H. Jacobs , Crowell & Moring LLP, of Washington, DC, for Leica Camera AG, et al.; Steven J. Routh , Sten Jensen , and John R. Inge , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Washington, DC, and Christopher P. Broderick and William H. Wright , of Los Angeles, CA, for Fujifilm Corporation, et al.; J. Rick Tache , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, of Irvine, CA, for Leaf Imaging, Ltd., et al; Joshua M. Masur and Zhuanjia Gu , Turner Boyd LLP, of Mountain View, CA, for Asus Computer International, et al.; and Mark C. Johnson , Kyle B. Fleming , and Nicholas J. Gingo , Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP, of Cleveland, OH, for Victor Hasselblad AB, et al. Of counsel were Jason P. Grier , Baker & Hostetler, of Atlanta, GA, Katrina M. Quicker and Michael J. Riesen , Ballard Spahe, LLP, of Atlanta, GA, for Xerox Corporation; Kent E. Baldaufer and Cecilia Rose Dickson , The Webb Law Firm, of Pittsburgh, PA, for Newegg, Inc., et al.; and David Evan Case , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan, for Fujifilm Corporation.

Before MOORE, REYNA, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.


REYNA, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we address the subject matter eligibility of claims in U.S. Patent No. 6,128,415 ("the '415 patent") directed to a device profile and a method for creating a device profile within a digital image processing system. The district court concluded that the asserted claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

Digitech Image Technologies ("Digitech"...

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