Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENTAL MONITORING SAS, Plaintiff, No. C 22-07335 WHA

v.

ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS Defendant.

15 INTRODUCTION In this patent infringement action, alleged infringer moves to dismiss patent owner’s direct, willful, and indirect infringement claims. For the following reasons, the motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. STATEMENT Patent owner Dental Monitoring SAS was founded in 2014 and provides “remote monitoring orthodontics, as well as visual and AI-powered orthodontics.” It seeks to eliminate time-consuming, costly, and unnecessary trips to the dentist by enabling patients to photograph their own mouths with their smartphones and enabling dentists and orthodontists to accurately analyze those photographs. According to Dental Monitoring, its services and products can “identify well over 100 gingival or dental issues, as well as…