Linquet Technologies, Inc. v. Tile, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LINQUET TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Case No. 3:20-cv-05153-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS
v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 29 TILE, INC., Defendant.
12 Plaintiff patentee Linquet Technologies, Inc (Linquet) has sued Tile, Inc. (Tile) for infringement of a location tag patent: U.S. Patent No. 10,163,318 (the ’318 patent). First Amended Complaint (FAC), Dkt. No. 25. Linquet amended the original complaint after Tile moved to dismiss for patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Dkt. No. 22. Tile now asks to dismiss the FAC on the ground that all claims of the ’318 patent are directed to patent-ineligible subject matter. Dkt. No. 29. In light of “the sources properly considered on a motion to dismiss, such as the complaint, the patent, and materials subject to judicial notice,” Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc., 882 F.3d 1121, 1128 (Fed. Cir. 2018), the FAC is dismissed under Section 101 and Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), with leave…