Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright has invalidated two of the patents being asserted by Concert Technology Corporation subsidiaries Ikorongo Technology, LLC and Ikorongo Texas, LLC, ending litigation targeting Bumble over its dating app. Ruling on April 12, just over a month after cancelling a scheduled trial, Judge Albright held that the asserted patent claims were invalid for violating the original patent requirement, which mandates that an invention described in a reissued patent claim be explicitly disclosed in the patent’s specification. The decision comes a week after the US Supreme Court declined to review a Federal Circuit ruling that reversed a related transfer denial from Judge Albright—a ruling in which the latter court chided the plaintiffs for their strategic “manipulation” of patent venue.