D. Ariz.: Exchanging Geographic And Demographic Data Is Not Patent Eligible Under Section 101

In the case USADATA Inc. v. DataWidget LLC, No. CV-21-00526-PHX-DLR, 2021 WL 5084283 (D. Ariz. Nov. 1, 2021), the patent at issue is titled, "System and Method for Selling Customer-Specific Data Subsets on a Third-Party Website Using a Web Widget." Like the title suggests, the claims recite a "system for searching and purchasing data subsets from a data seller," which comprises three main components: 1) an e-commerce vendor, 2) a data seller and (3) a data extraction widget.

The patent explains how the system works with a sandwich shop/web-to-print example:

A sandwich shop owner wants to run a targeted mail campaign by designing and sending postcards to all residents within five miles of the sandwich shop. The owner finds an e-commerce vendor selling printing services, but the vendor lacks its own database of residents within five miles of the sandwich shop. However, a third-party data seller has a database that can be searched to obtain that specific data