Entangled Media, LLC v. Dropbox, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ENTANGLED MEDIA, LLC, Case No. 23-cv-03264-PCP
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
9 v. DISMISS
10 DROPBOX INC., Defendant. 11
12 13 Plaintiff Entangled Media, LLC alleges that defendant Dropbox Inc. infringes two patents 14 related to cloud-based file systems. Dropbox moves to dismiss Entangled Media’s first amended 15 complaint, contending that the claims of the asserted patents are not patent-eligible under 35 16 U.S.C. § 101. For the reasons that follow, the Court denies Dropbox’s motion to dismiss. 17 BACKGROUND 18 The Court accepts the following facts from Entangled Media’s complaint as true for the 19 purposes of Dropbox’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. 20 Entangled Media owns U.S. Patent Nos. 8,296,338 (“the ’338 Patent”) and 8,484,260 (“the 21 ’260 Patent”) (collectively, the asserted patents). The ’338 patent was issued on October 23, 2012, 22 and is titled “Method for a Cloud-Based Meta-File System to Virtually Unify Remote…