Personal Jurisdiction Exists Due to Warning Letters and Prior Litigations in Forum -
Establishing personal jurisdiction in the United States over a company operating in a foreign country can be difficult. How does a...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
Method for Manufacturing Product (Dental Crown) Found to be Patent Eligible -
Zircore sued Straumann Manufacturing for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division)...more
File-Searching Software Patent Found to be Patent Eligible -
Speedtrack sued Amazon for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,544,360 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. ...more
USPTO's Conclusion of Obviousness Rendered Primary Reference Unsatisfactory for Intended Purpose -
In a nonprecedential opinion, the Federal Circuit vacated a decision by the Board and remanded the case on appeal from...more
Computer-Related Data Security Patents Found to Recite Patent Eligible Subject Matter -
Spex sued Apricorn for infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 6,088,802 and 6,003,135 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of...more
"Intuitive" to Combine Insufficient to Support Obviousness Rejection -
The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in an appeal from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a case...more
Petitioners, KAYAK Software Corp., OpenTable, Inc., Priceline.com LLC, and The Priceline Group Inc. filed a Petition requesting a covered business method (CBM) patent review of claims 1–9 and 12–17 of U.S. Patent No....more
Patent Directed to Programmable Ticketing System Determined to be Eligible for Covered Business Method Patent Review -
Petitioner, iVenture Card Traveler Ltd, filed a Petition seeking to institute a covered business...more
Second CBM Petition Denied As "Second Bite at the Apple" -
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a decision denying institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review in a...more
Computerized Restaurant Ordering Menu Patents Found to Be Directed to Unpatentable Subject Matter -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision in three...more
Federal Circuit Finds Another Software Patent Invalid under Section 101 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a recent non-precedential decision in a case captioned Tranxition, Inc. v. Lenovo (United...more
Message Exchange Patent Held Invalid under Section 101 -
Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC ("MTel") sued United Parcel Service, Inc. ("UPS") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia for...more
Plaintiff CG Technology Development, LLC sued Defendants Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, PLC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada for infringement of various patents via operation of various online casino...more
In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in a case captioned Perdiemco, LLC. v. Industrack LLC, the Court found some patents having method claims directed to "conveying user location" to be...more
On October 11, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in FairWarning IP, LLC v. Iatric Systems, Inc. affirming dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by FairWarning holding that the asserted patent,...more
Intellectual Ventures I LLC ("IV") sued Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro (defendants) for infringement of various claims of three U.S. Patents (Nos. 6,460,050; 6,073,142; and 5,987,610). The District Court held the asserted...more
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In a recent decision, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review on an Internet Portal System patent because the claims lacked any recitation of a...more
The PTAB denied institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review in a case between BMC Software Inc. (Petitioner) v. zIT Consulting GmbH (Patent Owner). Petitioner, BMC Software, Inc., filed a Petition to...more
"Computer Display System" Patent Found Invalid under § 101 -
Tridim Innovations LLC sued Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,838,326 and 5,847,709 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more
Bruce Zak, an individual, sued Facebook, Inc. for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on two of his software patents -- United States Patent Nos. 8,713,134 and 9,141,720. ...more
Eastern District of Texas and PTAB Issue Conflicting Decisions on Same Patent -
IV sued J. Crew for patent infringement of three patents: U.S. Patent Nos. RE43,715, 6,782,370, and 5,969,324. J. Crew filed a Motion to...more
Sally Beauty (Petitioner) filed a Petition requesting a review under the transitional program for covered business method (CBM) patents of U.S. Patent No. 5,969,324, owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC (IV)....more
On March 10, 2016, Silver Star Capital, LLC filed a petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 6,212,079 (IPR2016-00736). The patent owner is Power Integrations, Inc. On its face, this seems like another IPR filed...more
Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted Defendant Amazon.com's Motion to Dismiss for Invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 101 on the grounds that the two patents asserted by Plaintiff...more