Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Safeway, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM C. BRYSON, UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE.

In this patent infringement action, defendant Safeway, Inc., has moved for summary judgment of invalidity on the ground that the asserted claims of Kroy’s patent are directed to ineligible subject matter. Dkt. No. 140. The Court GRANTS the motion. '

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Kroy IP Holdings, LLC, is the record owner of U.S. Patent No. 7,054,830 (“the ’830 patent”), which relates to a method and system for providing incentive award programs over a computer network. The concept underlying the ’830 patent is that it creates…