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A district court in the Eastern District of Texas granted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss computer-implemented claims as patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Patent is directed to credentialing visitors and checking them in and out of an access-controlled environment, and the court found that the alleged inventive concept was nothing more than applying technology to “a method of accomplishing [a] longstanding human activity.”
Plaintiff Repifi Vendor Logistics, Inc. sued IntelliCentrics, Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 10,304,268 (“the ’268 Patent”). The ’268 Patent “is directed to a method for credentialing visitors to an access-controlled environment by an access administrator.” Specifically, the claimed method streamlines the credentialing and check-in/out processes for visitors to access controlled facilities (like health care facilities and office buildings) through a smart phone app that communicates with an electronic badge.