All of the limitations in all of the claims "are well-understood, routine, conventional activities previously known to the industry." And the separate elements of the claims, "when considered as an ordered combination . . . add nothing that is not already present when the steps are considered separately." Turning to prior Federal Circuit decisions, the court said they "found similar claims to be ineligible despite the recitation of a general purpose computer or the Internet," and that was true as well for similar claims that the Supreme Court found "to be ineligible despite recitation of a general purpose computer in "Alice", "Flook", and "Benson". Moreover, the claims were not sufficiently similar to the claims in "Diehr" and "DDR Holdings" to be patent eligible because they "do not improve some existing technological process or solve some technological problem in conventional industry practice" and they "are not rooted in computer technology to solve a problem specifically arising in some aspect of computer technology." Versata argued that its invention enables desirable benefits: "fewer software tables and searches, leading to improvements in computer performance and ease of maintenance." The court refused to consider the benefits, however, because "these supposed benefits are not recited in the claims at issue." The court said the claims were not directed to improving computer performance; rather, they were directed to calculating prices and they merely use a computer to make that calculation. Versata argued that it satisfied the machine-or-transformation test, which the court noted test can be a useful clue in determining the eligibility of method claims. But Versata's claims, the court said, do not satisfy the machine-or-transformation test:  However, the claims at issue do not transform a general purpose computer into a specific machine. The steps in Versata's claims (e.g., arranging, storing, retrieving, sorting, eliminating, determining) are conventional, routine, and well-known. They involve the normal, basic functions of a computer. In order for the addition of a machine to impose a meaningful limit on the scope of a claim, it must play a significant part in permitting the claimed method to be performed, rather than function solely as an obvious mechanism for permitting a solution to be achieved more quickly, i.e., through the utilization of a computer for performing calculations. Versata's claims do not meet this test, and instead function solely as a mechanism for permitting the price determination to be performed more quickly. Versata argued that the PTAB should have considered the commercial success of the invention, but did not.