Ginegar LLC v. Slack Technologies, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GINEGAR LLC, Case No. 22-cv-00044-WHO
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS THIRD AMENDED
COMPLAINT
SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC, Re: Dkt. No. 78 Defendant.
12 Defendant Slack Technologies, Inc. (“Slack”) moves to dismiss the Third Amended Complaint (“TAC”) brought by plaintiff Ginegar LLC (“Ginegar”), which alleges that Slack infringed upon one of Ginegar’s patents. Slack asserts that the only remaining claim in this case, Claim 8, does not recite patentable subject matter under the Mayo/Alice framework. Claim 8 is directed to a system that allows participants in an instant messaging session to exchange both audio and text messages, and then logs a unified transcript of those messages. But it is directed to an ineligible concept (the abstract idea of combining different message types in a single transcript) and recites only an improved result to instant message technology, not the specific means or methods for…