PayPal Trial Set for 2026 as Judge Blocks Revived Ioengine Claim

Ioengine LLC’s long-paused patent case against PayPal Holdings Inc. will move toward a 2026 trial after a federal judge lifted a stay and refused to let the company add a recently revived patent claim.

The lawsuit over portable data-storage technology used for secure online transactions will proceed on the two claims of US Patent No. 9,059,969 that survived earlier rulings, Circuit Judge William C. Bryson said in an opinion issued Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. He scheduled a five-day jury trial for late April 2026.

Bryson, sitting by designation from the US Court of ...