Apple Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Covid-Exposure Alert System

Apple Inc. convinced a federal judge to dismiss a patent-infringement lawsuit over the tech giant’s Covid-19 exposure notification system, though she left the door open for ALD Social LLC to adjust its allegations to address the shortcomings.

The complaint failed to credibly allege Apple’s system infringes the “crowd risk determinant” limitation of both asserted patents “because the term ‘crowd risk’ cannot plausibly be construed to include the likelihood of an individual’s past exposure to Covid-19,” Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote in an opinion issued Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

“Risk to an individual,” ...