USC IP Partnership, L.P. v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

  1. August 30, 2023

    Fed. Circ. Upholds Meta's Win In 'Intent Engine' Patent Row

    In a decision written by U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, the Federal Circuit on Wednesday handed a win to Meta by affirming a lower court's finding that claims in a patent for technology that could recommend web pages to users based on their browsing habits were invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision.

  2. January 13, 2023

    Fed. Circ. Wary Of Claim Against Facebook News Feed Tool

    The Federal Circuit was skeptical of a Texas research company's attempts to prove that a 2014 patent gave it claim to a tool using web user data to predict and suggest other webpages, suggesting during Friday's oral arguments that the claims in the patent are abstract and fail to detail the programming steps for the so-called intent engine.

  3. January 05, 2023

    IP Forecast: Big Tech's Fintiv Fight Heads To Fed. Circ.

    The Federal Circuit will hear arguments from some of the biggest names in the tech field that Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges don't have the power to reject patent challenges based on co-pending infringement suits in federal courts. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  4. March 29, 2022

    Albright's 1st Alice Ax Heads To Fed. Circ.

    The Federal Circuit is going to take a look at U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's first decision invalidating a patent on eligibility grounds, a win for Facebook that a Texas research company's patent licensing arm called "baffling" and "both legally and factually flawed."