NantWorks, LLC v. Niantic, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division NANTWORKS, LLC, et al., Case No. 20-cv-06262-LB
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
NIANTIC, INC., Re: ECF No. 23 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION NantWorks, LLC — a company that “develops various technologies to advance healthcare, commerce, and digital entertainment” — sued Niantic, Inc. for infringing three NantWorks patents in Niantic’s augmented-reality” game apps “Pokémon Go” and “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.”1 The operative complaint asserts three patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 10,403,051 (claim one), 10,614,477 (claim two), and 10,664,518 (claim three). Niantic moved to dismiss the second claim — infringement of the ’477 patent — on the ground that the claims of the ’477 patent are directed to an abstract idea (reconciling a transaction based on a user’s location) that lacks an inventive concept and thus is not…