It has to also be inventive. The above is just an extra hurdle to disqualify claims that only produce information. BTW: you can't block a user with pen and pa

It has to also be inventive. The above is just an extra hurdle to disqualify claims that only produce information. BTW: you can't block a user with pen and paper. You can obtain information for your decision to block them, but pen and paper, in isolation, have no impact on the world. Even something like a signed contract, PO etc has no effect, unless it is used in part of a system. If this doesn't make sense to you, recall that we're talking about the claims in the patent: of course, you can use pen and paper to do many things, but in a patent, it's not enough to claim you can work out the information with pen and paper; you have to also claim what you will do with that information.