Invalidated Patent

We defended the online learning software company in a competitor-to-competitor patent infringement suit filed in the Southern District of New York and assigned to Judge William H. Pauley III. We obtained a dismissal of the case with prejudice on patent invalidity grounds (Section 101 and the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd.  v. CLS Bank Intern., 573 U.S. 208 (2014)), after persuading Judge Pauley that the asserted patent covered non-patentable subject matter in that it simply implemented the familiar practice of taking tests via a scantron.

The Plaintiff subsequently appealed, and Tyz Law founder Ryan Tyz successfully defended the dismissal before the Federal Circuit, which affirmed the district court’s ruling after briefing and oral argument. The District Court’s decision can be viewed here: Multimedia Plus, Inc. v. PlayerLync, Inc., 198 F.Supp.3d 264 (S.D.N.Y 2016); the Federal Circuit’s decision can be viewed here: Multimedia Plus v. PlayerLync, Inc., 695 Fed.Appx. 577 (Fed. Cir. 2017).