May 25, 2017
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that all challenged claims in three patents covering customer rewards technology are invalid as obvious or as lacking proper written descriptions, handing retailers including Walgreens a win.
June 15, 2016
A coupon patent suit against Walgreens and CVS was put on hold Tuesday in the Eastern District of Texas, while the sides await a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as to whether the asserted claims are valid.
February 18, 2016
A Texas federal judge said Wednesday she will grant extra arguing time during an upcoming claims construction hearing to CVS, Walgreen or any other party in the infringement case over patents for processing coupons if the attorney arguing has seven years of experience or less.
January 25, 2016
CVS Pharmacy Inc. and other retailers can't yet shake an infringement suit over patents for processing coupons, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled in Texas on Monday, because the claims in the patents aren't blatantly abstract under Alice.
September 09, 2015
Three patents for processing coupons should be invalidated because they qualify as abstract ideas under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice ruling, according to a motion filed Tuesday in Texas federal court by three pharmacy chains facing infringement claims.
September 01, 2015
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap should overrule a magistrate judge's "unfair" refusal to stay discovery while a motion that the patents that several pharmacies are accused of infringing are invalid for claiming abstract ideas under Alice is resolved, Brookshire Grocery Co. argued.
August 24, 2015
An Eastern District of Texas magistrate judge has allowed CVS Pharmacy Inc. to argue that patents it is accused of infringing are invalid for claiming abstract ideas, but refused a motion to stay discovery while resolving the motion, a move the defendants say will cost them hundreds of thousand of dollars.