Plaintiffs: Kroy IP Holdings
Defendant: Kroger Co.
A patent infringement case (2:13-cv-00141) is filed in Texas Eastern District
Court by Kroy IP Holdings against Kroger on Feb 18th. This case
involves the patent US7054830 (System and
Method for Incentive Programs and Award Fulfillment), which is currently assigned[i] to Kroy IP Holdings (source:
MaxVal’s Assignment Database). The patent particularly relates to
a method of conducting incentive programs over internet.
The complaint alleges that the defendant is offering an
incentive program, which is identical to the incentive program claimed in the
‘830 patent by the plaintiffs. An online database is maintained by defendant’s
host computer allowing customers to keep track of their accumulated points. The
application in the host computer that provides reward fulfillment options to
each customer based on their account information, infringes the above patent.
The plaintiffs have filed another infringement suit (2:12-cv-00800) on 17th Dec 2012
asserting the same patent. If you are
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