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Taken for a Ride on Lyft Suit

Lyft being sued Stephen Dickerson who says patented the idea the '730 patent the complaint Marc Kasowitz when is Lyft not being sued for patent infringement? Eclipse IP Leigh Rothschild Blackbird Tech Shipping and Transit Hailo Technologies Uber U.S. Patent 5,973,619 Unified Patents including a 1978 patent. Nineteen seventy freakin' eight! 40-year-old patent instituted IPR proceedings maybe Professor Dickerson's focus on “an automated system for providing unified billing” will prove harder to invalidate Alice motion

Federal Circuit Picking Up the Pace

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Mylan can't shield patents from inter partes review at the PTO. Judge Kimberly Moore Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe' arguments last month the mixed signals the Supreme Court has been sending about IPR Justice Clarence Thomas Oil States Justice Stephen Breyer Cuozzo Ropes & Gray counsel Matt Rizzolo has applied sovereign immunity Justice Kavanaugh will tip the balance toward the SAS-it's-civil-litigation take on IPRs Oil States/Cuozzo Perkins Coie; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox Sughrue Mion LSI Corp ruled in December

Judge Plager Offers the Latest Section 101 Critique

Federal Circuit Judge Alan Lourie Lourie wrote Berkheimer v. HP Judge Pauline Newman Senior Judge Richard Linn a concurring opinion last fall Senior Judge Jay Plager a concurring opinion Interval Licensing v. AOL Alice/Mayo said from the bench Chief Judge Bob Mayer a 2016 opinion.

Correction

I wrote about Judge Susan Illston Illumina-Ariosa Eve v. Mentor Graphics Synopsys Inc. Mentor settled the case first raised SAS
That's all from Skilled in the Art today. I'll see you all again on Friday.