directPacket Research, Inc. v. Polycom, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DIRECTPACKET RESEARCH, INC., Case No. 3:19-cv-03918-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE JUDGMENT ON THE
v. PLEADINGS
POLYCOM INC, Defendant.
12 Plaintiff directPacket Research, Inc., sued defendant Polycom, Inc., for infringement of three patents related to methods of multimedia communication across computer networks. See Dkt. No. 1. Polycom filed petitions for inter partes review of all three patents. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) found that all asserted claims in two of directPacket’s three patents were unpatentable. Only U.S. Patent No. 7,773,588 (the ’588 patent) remains at issue in this case. Polycom says that the ’588 patent is directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and related cases, and asks for a dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(c). Dkt. No. 257. The first, second, and third claims in the complaint, which concern the ’588 patent, are dismissed with leave to amend. …