March 23, 2017
Two patent licensing companies on Wednesday hit back at a magistrate's recommendation to dismiss their infringement suits against Cigna, Consumer Cellular and others over 10 patents covering targeted email marketing technology, arguing that the defendants haven't established that the asserted claims are abstract under Alice.
March 10, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday recommended dismissing Phoenix Licensing's infringement suit against Cigna, Consumer Cellular and others, saying he could glean from 10 claims out of the 974 in the case that the patents protecting targeted email marketing technology were too abstract and unoriginal to pass the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.