Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Facebook, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SOFTWARE RIGHTS ARCHIVE, LLC, Case No. 12-cv-03970-HSG

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING FACEBOOK’S

MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE

v. PLEADINGS

FACEBOOK, INC., Re: Dkt. Nos. 197, 198, 205, 212 Defendant.

Pending before the Court is Defendant Facebook, Inc.’s (“Facebook”) motion for judgment on the pleadings. Dkt. No. 205 (“Mot.”), 215 (“Opp.”), and 222 (“Reply”). For the reasons explained below, the Court GRANTS the motion.1 I. BACKGROUND A. The Patents All three asserted patents, U.S. Patents Nos. 5,544,352 (“’352 Patent”), 5,832,484 (“’494 Patent”), and 6,233,571 (“’571 Patent”), share the same title—“Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data”—and generally relate to a research tool for indexing, searching and displaying data that focuses on the relationship between items. See Dkt. No. 198-2 (’352 Patent), 198-4 (’494 Patent), 198-6 (’571 Patent). The ’352 Patent is a…