Online Subscription Services Are the Focus of Latest Suits by Inventor Holdings
Inventor Holdings continued its campaign asserting former Walker Digital patents. In two recent filings, Inventor Holdings alleges that Sam’s West and Target are infringing a patent related to the sale and distribution of products in accordance to purchase agreements (5,970,470). The complaints accuse defendants’ online subscriptions services of infringing the patent-in-suit. The ‘470 patent has been asserted in litigation once before, by Walker Digital against Amazon in April 2011; the case remains open in initial pleadings. Inventor Holdings, a subsidiary of Patent Properties, acquired at least 22 patents from Walker Digital in November 2013, including the ‘470 patent. 6/19, Delaware District Court, 1:14cv00783, 1:14cv00784