Salesforce’s Dismissal of Cloud Systems Suit Affirmed on Appeal

The Federal Circuit rejected a consultant’s argument that its suit against Salesforce Inc. should be revived because it has standing to file patent infringement allegations over cloud-management systems.

Applications In Internet Time LLC doesn’t hold intellectual property rights to US Patent Nos. 7,356,482 and 8,484,111 because a 2006 agreement gave them all to one of the consulting agency’s founder, the opinion issued Monday by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said.

“AIT therefore had no exclusionary patent rights at the inception of the lawsuit and lacked constitutional standing to sue under them,” Judge Alan Lourie wrote for ...