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Inventor-Controlled Plaintiff Turns from Meta to Twitter

December 10, 2022

A stay in the March 2022 case that Virtual Creative Artists, LLC (VCA) filed against Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook), to facilitate a noticed settlement, has been extended through mid-December. Meanwhile, the same plaintiff has turned to Twitter (1:22-cv-06890), filing a second complaint, this one in the Northern District of Illinois rather than in the Western District of Texas. The new complaint also swaps out one of the two patents asserted in the Meta case, leaving unasserted the one that is the subject of a petition for inter partes review (IPR) awaiting an institution decision before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). VCA targets the “Twitter website and platform” as allegedly using a “computer-based system . . . to enable integration with web-based and app-based user interfaces”.


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