MLB Touted Ticket Tech It Now Calls Abstract, Patent Owner Says

Major League Baseball’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit over dynamic ticketing technology contradicts the league’s own marketing, which promoted the feature as a “new, secure” innovation rather than an abstract idea ineligible for patenting, EChanging Barcode LLC told a federal court.

MLB Advanced Media LP, the league’s digital media arm, can’t push for the cancellation of EChanging’s US Patent No. 9,047,715 as overly broad while publicly touting the “Protect the Barcode” feature of its MLB Ballpark mobile app, according to EChanging’s brief opposing the league’s dismissal motion filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New ...