Upon release, critics noted that " Cydonia " merged pop, trance, and ambient-dub music, which they felt to be a conglomeration of bland vocals and uninventive ambience that lacked the appeal of the Orb's earlier work . " NME " harshly described it as " a stillborn relic, flawed throughout by chronically stunted ambitions " and describing its only appropriate audience to be " old ravers " seeking nostalgia.
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In an article in the " Boston Herald " titled " Don't waste your " Mad Money " on poor comedy ", Stephen Schaefer gave the film a rating of " C ", writing " Even with the legendary Diane Keaton center stage, " Mad Money " fails to hit the stratosphere of giddy, intoxicating comedy . " The film received a critical review in from Claudia Puig in " USA Today " " This lifeless comedy and uninventive caper feels as if it were cobbled together at a studio's obligatory consciousness-raising diversity seminar ."
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It said that even if the invention required the use of a computer, the claim did not constitute a technological invention because, as the Supreme Court held in 'Alice v . CLS Bank', the presence of a general purpose computer to facilitate operations through uninventive steps does not change the fundamental character of an invention . The PTAB viewed the invention typified by claim 17 as basically a method of determining a price, which could be achieved in any type of computer system or programming or processing environment, and accordingly no specific, unconventional software, computer equipment, tools or processing capabilities are required . The court agreed with the PTAB that this is not a technical solution but more akin to creating organizational management charts . Therefore, the court affirmed the PTAB s conclusion that Versata s 350 patent is a covered business method patent, and that it does not fall within the exception for technological inventions, whatever that exception may otherwise mean .
