Legal Opinion
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. v. Dickstein Shapiro, LLP
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 27, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2010-0454PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge.
The patents at issue in this case cover multimedia systems for retrieving textual and graphical information. The question before the Court is whether these claims are patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, or are instead drawn to a patent-ineligible abstract idea. The parties agree that the § 101 issue is properly before the Court and may be addressed pursuant to a motion for judgment on the pleadings under Rule 12(c),
I. BACKGROUND
A. Procedural History
In 2006, plaintiff Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (“EB”) sued several com-…
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