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(Reuters) – The one energetic patent remaining in Philips North America LLC’s infringement lawsuit towards Google LLC’s Fitbit LLC is invalid, a Boston federal choose mentioned Thursday, spelling the top of the businesses’ dispute for now.
Philips had accused a number of Fitbit wearables of infringing its patent for “interactive train monitoring.” However the invention can’t be patented as a result of it covers an summary concept, Chief U.S. District Choose Dennis Saylor mentioned.
Philips mentioned Friday that it was conscious of the ruling and declined to remark.
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San Francisco-based Fitbit’s attorneys and Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The North American department of Netherlands-based Koninklijke Philips NV alleged in 2019 that Fitbit’s health trackers infringed 4 patents associated to its wearable health-monitoring gadgets. Philips withdrew its allegations as to one of many patents, the court docket discovered one other invalid, and a U.S. Patent Workplace tribunal canceled the third, in a choice that Philips has appealed.
Saylor granted Fitbit’s request Thursday for a ruling that the case’s lone remaining exercise-tracking patent was invalid. Saylor mentioned the patent lined “nothing greater than the gathering, evaluation, and presentation of knowledge, which have been discovered — individually and collectively — to be summary ideas.”
The choose additionally rejected Fitbit’s argument that the patent’s alleged innovation of “offloading” knowledge evaluation capabilities from a person’s telephone to an outdoor server was an ingenious, patent-eligible idea.
Fitbit, together with Garmin Ltd, defeated a associated Philips patent case on the U.S. Worldwide Commerce Fee final yr.
The Boston case is Philips North America LLC v. Fitbit Inc, U.S. District Court docket for the District of Massachusetts, No. 1:19-cv-11586.
For Philips: Eley Thompson and Lucas Silva of Foley & Lardner
For Fitbit: David Shaw of Desmarais
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