Legal Opinion

Tele-Publishing, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc.

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided December 1, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 09-11686-DPWPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Plaintiff Tele-Publishing Inc. (“TPI”) has requested that I reconsider the holding I made in my September 7, 2016 Memorandum and Order (“Markman Order”) that claims 31 and 34 of United States Patent No. 6,253,216 are invalid as indefinite. Tele-Publishing, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. CV 09-11686-DPW, 205 F.Supp.3d 142, 160, 2016 WL 4697336, at *11 (D. Mass. Sept. 7, 2016). I there found claims 31 and 34 indefinite because they were “not tied to a disclosed algorithm” and therefore lacked a corresponding structure. Id. TPI…

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