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Medical Records Campaign Snags Oracle in Wake of Cerner Acquisition
New Patent Litigation
The latest defendant to be added to the litigation campaign of Decapolis Systems, LLC is Oracle (6:22-cv-01003), sued in the Western District of Texas over a pair of previously litigated medical records patents. While the plaintiff has filed nearly all of its roughly 30 cases in that district, it is a case brought by Epic Systems in the Southern District of Florida that has progressed past pleadings. Epic Systems seeks declaratory judgments of noninfringement and invalidity of the two patents, moving quickly as to the latter in papers that argue that the claims of each patent are ineligibly drawn, under Alice, to abstract ideas.
September 23, 2022
GreatGigz Adds Four Retailers to Transportation Services Campaign
New Patent Litigation
So far in August, GreatGigz Solutions, LLC, one of several entities controlled by prolific inventor Raymond Anthony Joao, has sued Costco (6:21-cv-00807), CVS (6:21-cv-00808), Walgreens (6:21-cv-00809), and Walmart (6:21-cv-00798), all in the Western District of Texas. The four patents-in-suit are generally related to providing employment hiring services over a network, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective platforms (e.g., e-commerce websites and mobile apps) for “order[ing] groceries and other items online”. At issue are features for matching “shoppers” with customers for scheduling deliveries, with Costco, CVS, and Walgreens further accused over the use of the Instacart platform and Amazon Web Services data centers and Walmart accused over its Spark Driver platform.
August 13, 2021
Prolific Named Inventor Continues Burst of 2020 Litigation
New Patent Litigation
Broadway Bancshares (Broadway National Bank) (6:20-cv-01135), Credit Human Federal Credit Union (6:20-cv-01137), Electronic Merchant Systems (6:20-cv-01130), First Citizens Bancshares (First Citizens Bank and Trust) (6:20-cv-01132), Government Employees Credit Union (6:20-cv-01133), NCR (JetPay; NCR Payment Solutions) (6:20-cv-01138), TruWest (6:20-cv-01141), and University Federal Credit Union (6:20-cv-01134) have been sued in a new payment services campaign, launched by Caselas, LLC in the Western District of Texas. The Florida plaintiff asserts five patents, generally related to processing information related to an individual’s financial history (including “charge-backs”) prior to a transaction and transmitting it to the merchant, that name as their sole inventor a familiar figure in patent monetization over the past decade.
December 14, 2020
Expanding Campaign Zeroes In on Website Job Search Services
New Patent Litigation
The Western District of Texas campaign of GreatGigz Solutions, LLC, begun in June against Microsoft (LinkedIn) (6:20-cv-00545), has since expanded to include cases filed against Angie’s List (6:20-cv-00633), GrubHub (6:20-cv-00628), Lyft (6:20-cv-00651), and Uber (6:20-cv-00652). Four patents generally related to providing employment hiring services over a network are asserted in overlapping sets across the five cases. These suits are the first for GreatGigz, but they are not the first for the inventor named on the patents and controlling the plaintiff; entities formed by Raymond Anthony Joao have waged various campaigns for years, most recently including a GPS vehicle navigation campaign, initiated in February 2020 through Joao plaintiff NavBlazer, LLC.
July 18, 2020