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Wakefield v. Blackboard Inc., No. 24-2030 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 23, 2025)

Affirmed
General / Procedural
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 24-2030
Also Docketed
No. 24-2031, No. 24-2032, No. 24-2033, No. 24-2035, No. 24-2036, No. 24-2037, No. 24-2038 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
April 23, 2025
Judge
Per curiam
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
10 pages

From the Opinion

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In 2022, this court affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware holding invalid all claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,162,696 (’696 pa- tent). See CoolTVNetwork.com, Inc. v. Blackboard, Inc. , No. 2021-2191, 2022 WL 2525330 (Fed. Cir. July 7, 2022) (per curiam). More than a year later, t he named inventor WAKEFIELD v. BLACKBOARD INC. 3 of the ’696 patent, Franz A. Wakefield, doing business as CoolTVNetwork.com, Inc.

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