IBM Patent Lawsuit Against Chewy Partially Revived by Fed. Cir.

An International Business Machines Corp. patent suit against online pet-supply seller Chewy Inc. was given fresh life by a panel of Federal Circuit judges.

A mixed ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit endorsed much of a district court judge’s April 2022 summary judgment ruling in favor of Chewy, including that parts of one IBM web-based advertising patent are abstract and thus invalid, and that most of the asserted claims from another patent weren’t infringed by Chewy. However, a single claim from IBM’s US Patent No. 7,072,849 should proceed toward a trial in the US ...