Teradata US, Inc. v. SAP SE
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TERADATA US, INC., Case No. 20-cv-06127-WHO
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
SAP SE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 34 Defendants.
Defendants SAP SE, SAP America, Inc., and SAP Labs, LLC (SAP) move to dismiss the patent infringement claims brought by plaintiff Teradata US, Inc. (Teradata) under U.S. Patent No. ʼ7,185,000 (ʼ000 Patent) under Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Intern., 573 U.S. 208 (2014) (Alice), arguing that the ʼ000 Patent is directed to abstract mental processes or mathematics and therefore fails to claim patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.1 SAP contends that the claims of the ʼ000 Patent are aimed at the “abstract idea” of providing a graphical display of selected information when creating and analyzing queries produced by massively parallel databases having multiple virtual processors. This graphical display was meant to assist database administrators who were formally using…