Legal Opinion
Mankes v. Vivid Seats Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 22, 2016No. 2015-1500, 2015-1501, 2015-1909PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Robert Mankes owns U.S. Patent No. 6,477,503, which describes and claims methods for managing a reservation system that divides inventory between a local server and a remote Internet server. In October 2013, Mr. Mankes sued Vivid Seats Ltd. and Fandango, LLC in the Eastern District of North Carolina, alleging that their operation of Internet-based reservation systems, in conjunction with the operation of local reservation systems by movie theaters and other entertainment venues, infringes the '503 patent. Because it is undisputed that no one person performs all of the…
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