Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. v. Sirius XM Radio Inc., No. 2023-2267 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) June 9, 2025). Opinion by Lourie, joined by Dyk and Reyna....more
"Hope springs eternal [in the human breast]" (Alexander Pope) and "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" (the latter attributed variably to Albert Einstein and Werner Erhart) are two...more
Sequoia Technology, LLC v. Dell, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-2263, -2264, -2265, -2266 (Fed. Cir. April 12, 2023) In an appeal from a stipulated judgment of noninfringement and invalidity following an adverse claim construction...more
Judge Engelmayer in the Southern District of New York recently granted a motion to dismiss the complaint because the patent-in-suit is directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The patent is directed...more
By Memorandum Order entered by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark following oral argument in Invitae Corp. v. Natera, Inc., Civil Action No. 21-669-LPS (D.Del. November 29, 2021), the Court denied defendant Natera’s motion to...more
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Richard G. Andrews in Rondevoo Technologies, LLC v. Aernos, Inc., Civil Action No. 19-680-RGA (D.Del. March 24, 2020), the Court granted Defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to...more
A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more
Case Name: Endo Pharms. Inc. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., C.A. No. 17-1240, 1455, 1887, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 9189 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2019)....more
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Align Technology, Inc. v. 3Shape A/S et al., Civil Action No. 17-1646-LPS-CJB (D.Del. September 7, 2018) and Align Technology, Inc. v. 3Shape A/S et al.,...more
On March 1, 2018, United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer (S.D.N.Y.) granted defendants’—Charter Communications, Inc. and Spectrum Management Holding Company, LLC (together, “Charter”)—motion to dismiss a patent...more
Business Method / Software Patent Invalidated for Claiming Ineligible Subject Matter - In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Integrated Technological Systems, Inc. (ITS) sued First Internet Bank...more
Sleet, J. Defendant’s motion to dismiss for patent ineligible subject matter under section 101 is denied without prejudice. Defendant asserts that a representative claim discloses a method of providing a radio...more
Defendant seeks to dismiss one of the seven patents-in-suit. The disputed technology relates to managing electronic community interest or community information preference. Defendant argues under Alice that the asserted claims...more
On July 28, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in Advanced Ground Information Systems v. Life360, Inc., affirming the district court’s decision that the asserted patent claims are indefinite. This opinion is notable...more
Declaratory judgment plaintiff seeks a stay pending resolution of its motion for judgment on the pleadings. It contends that 23 contested claims from 3 patents-in-suit are not patent-eligible pursuant to section 101. With...more
The patent-in-suit is directed to redeeming discount offers by associating a machine-readable code with identifying items to be offered at a discount. Defendant asserts that the technology is patent ineligible under Alice....more
On December 17, 2015, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) ruled that, in light of Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014) (“Alice”), a plaintiff’s position on...more
The disputed technology relates to applications used particularly in the airline industry. Defendants allege the patents-in-suit are invalid for unpatentable subject matter under § 101. The court finds that the...more
In its third opinion reviewing the same district court decision, the Federal Circuit this time affirmed the district court’s grant of WildTangent’s motion to dismiss Ultramercial’s patent infringement complaint because the...more