Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC v. Sprint Nextel Corp.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Whyte, J.
*1160 ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS AND MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS
Defendants Sprint Nextel Corporation, Sprint Communications Company L.P., Sprint Spectrum L.P., Sprint Solutions Inc., Apple, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Foursquare Labs, Inc., Groupon, Inc., LivingSo-cial, Inc., Twitter, Inc:, Yelp, Inc., and Millennial Media, Inc. (collectively, “defendants”) move to dismiss plaintiff Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC’s (“El”) complaint, and for judgment on the pleadings. Dkt. No. 188. 1 Defendants argue that all claims of the asserted patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 7,010,536 (“the ’536 patent”) and 7,702,682 (“the ’682 patent”), are invalid for failure to claim patent-eligible subject matter. For the reasons explained below, the court GRANTS the motion.
I. BACKGROUND
El asserts that defendants each infringe the ’536 and ’682 patents, both of which are entitled “System and Method for Creating and Manipulating Information Containers with Dynamic Registers.” The ’682 patent issued on April 20, 2010, and is a continuation of the ’536 patent, which issued on March 7, 2006. ’682 patent at 1; ’536 patent at 1. The two patents share the same specification, claim priority to the same…