Amazon, Google Defeat Surveillance Patent Infringement Claims

Surveillance firm VIAAS Inc. is unable to proceed with its lawsuit against various tech giants over alleged patent infringement, a Texas federal court ruled.

Amazon.com Inc. and its subsidiary Ring LLC, as well as Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., ADT LLC, and Vivint Inc. convinced the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to dismiss VIAAS’s two patent infringement claims because of defects in their chain of title.

Judge Kathleen Cardone denied VIAAS leave to amend its complaint because even if the company were to acquire the necessary patent rights, the court couldn’t confer retroactive ...