Experience
Finnegan client successfully uses CBM to invalidate a competitor’s patents
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.; Metavante Corporation
CashEdge, Inc. and CheckFree Corp.
Finnegan client Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) successfully challenged four banking patents owned by its rival financial-services-technology provider Fiserv Inc. FIS petitioned the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for covered business method patent review (CBM). The PTAB said the four patents—directed to processing payment instructions, providing electronic biller notifications, and processing interbank fund-transfer transactions—cover abstract ideas that, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision on patentability in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, are too abstract to be patentable. The PTAB decisions stem from a suit filed in January 2012, in which Fiserv subsidiaries CheckFree Corp. and CashEdge Inc. accused FIS and its subsidiary Metavante Corp. of infringing the patents. Following a Markman hearing, the court stayed the litigation while the PTAB reviewed the Fiserv patents.
CheckFree Corp. and CashEdge Inc. v. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.; Metavante Corporation, 3:12-cv-00015, M.D. Fla., Judges Howard, Toomey
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.; Metavante Corporation v. CashEdge, Inc. and CheckFree Corp., CBM2013-00028, -00030, -00031, -00032, PTAB, Judges Grossman, McNamara, Pettigrew
CashEdge, Inc. and CheckFree Corp. v. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.; Metavante Corporation, 15-1519, -1524, -1529, -1530, Fed. Cir.
