Cogent Medicine, Inc. v. Elsevier Inc.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Whyte, J.
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS
Defendants Elsevier, Inc. (“Elsevier”) and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (collectively, “John Wiley”) move to dismiss plaintiff Cogent Medicine, Inc.’s (“Cogent”) complaint. Defendants argue that all claims of the asserted patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,133,879 (“the '879 Patent”) are invalid for failure to claim patent-eligible subject matter. For the reasons explained below, the court GRANTS the motion.
I. BACKGROUND
Cogent asserts that Elsevier, John Wiley, and Physicians Interactive Holdings, Inc., Physicians Interactive, Inc., and Skyscape.com, Inc. infringe the '879 Patent,. titled “Personalized Library Interface for Providing Data to a User.” See '879 Patent. The '879 Patent describes a database of medical resources that is searcha-ble via a library interface. See, e.g., id. at 1:22-58. The '879 Patent also refers to “preselected data,” which includes information selected by an editor, expert, or advertiser. Id. at 1:54-58 . The detailed description section summarizes the alleged invention succinctly:
Id. at 2:27-33 .
The bulk of the remainder of the '879 Patent’s specification is dedicated to discussing the “library…