Earlier this year, Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied a motion filed by Marriott challenging the claims of the patents that Liberty Access Technologies Licensing LLC asserted against it in an August 2022 complaint. The court indicated that claim construction “could be of benefit in addressing” whether those claims are directed to the putative abstract idea of “allowing access based on receiving reservation information”, allowing Marriott to refile its Alice motion, if appropriate, after claim construction. Meanwhile, December 2022 defendant ASSA ABLOY has responded to the East Texas complaint filed against it by suing—via subsidiary ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, Inc.—Liberty Access in a new Northern District of Illinois declaratory judgment action (1:23-cv-00756).