Image-search patents asserted against London-based augmented reality firm Blippar Ltd. are abstract and ineligible for patent protection, an appeals court ruled.
A three-judge panel upheld a district judge’s May 2022 dismissal of Mobile Acuity Ltd.'s suit in a precedential opinion authored by Circuit Judge Leonard P. Stark and issued Tuesday by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mobile Acuity, a company formed by inventors at the University of Edinburgh, sued Blippar in 2021, accusing its mobile app—which allows users to take pictures of certain branded products to unlock related content on their phones—of infringing claims from two ...
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