Specialized Monitoring Solutions, LLC v. ADT LLC d/b/a ADT Security Services, No. 2:17-cv-00768 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 7, 2019)

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Before the Court is a motion for summary judgment by d efendant ADT LLC d/b/a ADT Security Services (“ADT”). Dkt. No. 62. Plaintiff Specialized Monitoring Solutions, LLC, (“SMS”) is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 6,657,553 (“the ’553 patent”) and has asserted claims 1– 5, 7–9, 17–23, 25–27, and 35–36 of that patent against ADT . ADT seeks summary judgment of invalidity as to all of the claims asserted against it, arguing that the asserted claims of the ’553 patent are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for failure to recite patentable subject matter.