Google Keeps Its Victory Over Owner of Web-Conferencing Patent

A district court was right to dismiss an infringement suit against Google LLC based on the tech titan’s argument that the web-conferencing patent asserted against it captured an abstract idea and is therefore invalid, the Federal Circuit ruled.

Even under a narrower characterization of US Patent No. 7,679,637 proposed by the plaintiff company, “we would still conclude the claims are directed to the patent-ineligible abstract idea of allowing asynchronous review of presentations, rather than any specific technological improvement,” because the claims don’t explain how the solution is actually achieved, wrote Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore in a precedential opinion issued ...