שופט בית המשפט המחוזי שבמחוז המזרחי בטקסס גילסטראפ קבע בהחלט בעניין Intellectual Ventures I LLC et al v. J Crew Group, Inc. כי "קוד ברקוד בלתי צפוי" ו-"מידע על תנועות כספיות המשויך לקוד ברקוד בלתי צפוי" מהווים מגבלה מספקת על מנת שלא ניתן יהיה לקבוע כי התביעות בפטנט אינן כשירות בהתאם לפרשנות פסק דין אליס.
"[Defendant] contends that the [patent-in-suit] is directed toward the abstract idea of retrieving transaction records. . . . [Defendant] takes an overly generalized view of the claim language that vitiates meaningful limitations. [Defendant's] recitation of the claims ignores (or at least evades) the elements of 'nonpredictable bar code' and 'transaction information associated with a nonpredictable bar code.' These elements place substantial limitations on the scope of the asserted claims. . . . [Defendant] dismisses the nonpredictable bar code limitation because it was 'known in the prior art.' But a claim does not fail [Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014)] scrutiny merely because it recites elements known in the prior art. . . . Here, the invention lies in the combined use of nonpredictable bar codes with transaction information. Far from conventional, this novel combination resulted in an improvement over the mid-1990s accounting software, which relied on manual entry of transaction information. Furthermore, the specification teaches that using nonpredictable bar codes to transmit transaction information over a network constitutes a 'significant improvement in that transaction data . . . can be accessed by an end user without concern by unauthorized parties.'”