Sweepstakes Patent Company v. Burns, No. 14-1851 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 20, 2015)

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Sweepstakes Patent Company, LLC (“SPC”) waived its right to appeal the issue of whether the district court should have applied Que bec Law. T hus, we affirm the district court’s grant of the motion to dismiss for lack of standing. B ACKGROUND This case involves the invention of a new method and system for playing an interactive lottery game. The method was invented by Mr. Perry Kaye, who obtained two patents covering his invention, U.S. Pat ent Nos. 5,569,082 and 5,709,603 (“patents”). On March 5, 1999, Mr.