Is the glass half empty or half full? shown that a speaker's choice of frame can reflect their knowledge of the environment, and that listeners can be sensitive to this information. Is the glass half empty or half full? "Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a common expression, a proverbial phrase, generally used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty), or as a general litmus test to simply determine an individual's worldview. The purpose of the question is to demonstrate that the situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point
Machine-or-transformation test generally insufficient to make an otherwise ineligible method claim patent-eligible. The PTO Guidance Memo explains that "[t]his means the machine or transformation must impose meaningful limits on the method claim's scope [for it] to pass the test." What makes a limitation meaningful is unstated, but perhaps that concept can be defined in terms of whether the limitation places only an insubstantial limitation on claim scope or preemptiveness. The second corollary is that insignificant extra-solution activity will not transform a patent ineligible principle into a patentable process. The PTO Guidance Memo explains that "[t]his means reciting a specific machine or a