MLB Says Inventor Abandoned, Wrongfully Revived Ticketing Patent

Major League Baseball’s digital media arm urged a New York federal court to dismiss a patent lawsuit against it as a sanction for fraud by the plaintiff.

MLB Advanced Media LP, facing allegations the “Protect the Barcode” feature in its MLB Ballpark mobile app infringes US Patent No. 9,047,715, said Alan Amron and his company eChanging Barcode LLC “are aware that this patent expired years ago yet are using it to try to extract money from MLBAM anyway,” in a brief filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. MLBAM said it ...