ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES V SHOPPERSCHOICE.COM, FEDERAL CIRCUIT 2020 (SOFTWARE PATENTS)
Electronic Communication Technologies, LLC sued ShoppersChoice.com, LLC (“ShoppersChoice”), alleging that ShoppersChoice infringed claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 9,373,261. The district court granted ShoppersChoice’s motion for judgment on the pleadings that claim 11 was invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
The ’261 patent is titled “Secure Notification Messaging with User Option to Communicate with Delivery or Pickup Representative.” ’Claim 11 re-cites:
An automated notification system, comprising:
- one or more transceivers designed to communicate data; one or more memories;one or more processors; and
- computer program code stored in the one or more memories and executed by the one or more processors, the computer program code comprising:
- code that enables a first party associated with a personal communication device (PCD) to input or…