Federal Circuit Undoes Salesforce’s Early Win in Patent Suit

The Federal Circuit revived a patent infringement lawsuit against Salesforce Inc. Thursday, ruling that the district court judge incorrectly found the asserted patents weren’t infringed and were invalid.

Applications in Internet Time LLC correctly argued that the district court erred in its claim construction for the term “automatically detecting,” according to the nonprecedential opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The three-judge panel vacated the court’s grants of summary judgment in favor of Salesforce on both non-infringement and invalidity of the patents and sent the case back to the lower court.

The three-judge appeals court panel ...