Lyft Wins Appeal in Challenge to RideApp’s Ride-Sharing Patent

Lyft triumphs as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that a federal judge was correct to invalidate a RideApp patent for an “urban transportation” system.

• Patent is for system that monitors location of vehicles, assigns them based on the location of a proposed passenger and alerts passenger when the vehicle is nearing
• RideApp, founded by Georgia Tech engineering Professor Stephen Dickerson, had filed lawsuits accusing Lyft, Uber and New York-based Juno of infringing the patent
• Lyft successfully argued the patent was indefinite
  • The patent doesn’t describe “how the system analyzes different passenger transportation requests and vehicle ...