Thought, Inc. v. Oracle Corporation, No. 16-2369 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 21, 2017)

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Thought, Inc. (“Thought”) appeals from the Northern District of California’s summary judgment of noni n- fringement of claims 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 of U.S. Patent No. 5,857,197 (“the ’197 patent”). For the reasons di s- cussed below, we affirm. BACKGROUND The ’197 patent, titled “System and Method for A c- cessing Data Stores as Objects,” discloses a system and method for object -oriented programs to access data in a relational database.