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Planet Bingo, LLC v. Vkgs LLC, No. 13-1663 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2014)

Affirmed
§ 101 Eligibility Summary Judgment
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 13-1663
Decided
August 26, 2014
Judge
Hughes, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
7 pages

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Planet Bingo, LLC , owns two patents for computer - aided management of bingo games. After Planet Bin go filed an infringement action against VKGS, LLC , t he district court granted summary judgment of invalidity, concluding that the patents do not claim patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Because a straight- forward application of the Supreme Court’s recent holding in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), leads us to the same result, we affirm. I Planet Bingo alleged that VKGS infringed U.S. Patent Nos.

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