In re Automated Transactions LLC Patent Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

KATHRYN H. VRATIL, Acting Chairman.

Before the Panel: * Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, defendants1 in three actions seek centralization of eight actions involving numerous related patents owned by patentholder Automated Transactions LLC (ATL) in the District of Delaware. The patents at issue, U.S. Patent No. 6,945,457 ('457 patent) and 12 patents that have issued as continuations of the '457 patent, are generally directed to a method and apparatus for providing banking services and retail transactions to a consumer through -an automated teller machine (ATM). This litigation…