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 SUMMARY JUDGMENT Defendant.

15 INTRODUCTION Dueling summary judgment motions contest the validity of two of plaintiff’s patents and their infringement. The asserted claims of both patents recite an abstract idea and include no further inventive concept and are therefore invalid. Defendants’ motion is GRANTED IN PART; all else is DENIED AS MOOT. STATEMENT Dental aligners, like braces, are used to reposition a patient’s teeth. After a dental practitioner scans a patient’s starting dentition and determines a desired final dentition, third parties like defendant Align Technology, Inc. design and manufacture a series of aligners that, when worn in sequence, exert pressure on the patient’s teeth and thereby gradually move them from the starting to final dentition. Typically, a dental…