Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Gabara v. Facebook, Inc., No. 2020-2333
Gabara sued Facebook Inc. in the Southern District of New York
asserting infringement of several patents relating to imaging
technology. Facebook moved to dismiss, arguing the claims of the
asserted patents were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The
district court granted Facebook s motion. It found at
Alice Step One that the claims were directed to the
abstract idea of [m]oving the device to change one s view
of the image. At
Alice Step Two, the district court
found no inventive concept, finding the patents employ
conventional computer hardware and processes, in an ordinary
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Energy Heating, LLC ("Energy Heating") sued Heat On-The-Fly ("HOTF") and Super Heaters North Dakota ("SHND") in the District of North Dakota seeking a declaratory judgment.
This month, we have oral arguments for the following intellectual property cases: Energy Heating LLC, v. Heat On-The-Fly, Sensormatic Electronics, LLC v. Wyze Labs, Inc. and Mentone Solutions LLC v. Digi International Inc.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
The following telephone arguments will be available to the public live. Access information will be available by 9 AM ET each day of argument at: http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/public-access-arguments.
Monday, April 5, 2021
Publishing Technologies, LLC v. RPX Corporation, No. 20-1420
After Publishing Technologies asserted U.S. Patent No. 7,908,342 (“the ’342 Patent”) against RPX Corporation, RPX filed two IPR petitions challenging the claims of the ’342 patent. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) instituted on both. While the PTAB declined to construe certain terms at institution, instead giving them their plain and ordinary meaning as RPX had urged, in the FWDs, the PTAB adopted Publishing’s proposed constructions of these terms before finding the claims invalid.