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WhitServe LLC v. Donuts Inc., No. 19-2240 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 10, 2020)

Affirmed
§ 101 Eligibility Motion to Dismiss
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 19-2240
Also Docketed
No. 19-2241 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
April 10, 2020
Judge
Taranto, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
11 pages

From the Opinion

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WhitServe LLC owns U.S. Patent Nos. 5,895,468 and 6,182,078, both of which describe and claim systems and methods by which providers of professional services, using the Internet , send reminders to clients and obtain re- sponses from them . We addressed these patents in WhitServe LLC v. Computer Packages, Inc. , 694 F.3d 10 (Fed. Cir. 2012) (WhitServe I), where we resolved questions of infringement and anticipation, among other issues.

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