Plaintiff: MyMedicalRecords (MMR)
Defendant: Walgreens
Case Number: 2:13-cv-00631
Date Filed: January 29, 2013
Court: California Central District Court
Patents-in-Suit: US8171045, US8117646,
US8121855, US8301466, US8321240, US8352287 and US8352288
Patent Number
Current
Assignee[i]
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Issue
Date
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Expiration
Date[ii]
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Title
|
|
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May 01, 2012
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Jul 31, 2028
|
Record based code structure
|
|
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Feb 14, 2012
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Sep 12, 2025
|
Method and
system for providing online records
|
|
|
Feb 21, 2012
|
Sep 12, 2025
|
Method and system for providing
online medical records
|
|
My Medical
Records
|
Oct 30, 2012
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Sep 12, 2025
|
Method and
system for providing online records
|
|
My Medical Records
|
Nov 27, 2012
|
Sep 12, 2025
|
Method and system for providing
online medical records
|
|
My Medical
Records
|
Jan 08, 2013
|
Sep 12, 2025
|
Method for
proving a user with a service for accessing and collecting personal health
records
|
|
My Medical Records
|
Jan 08, 2013
|
Sep 12, 2025
|
Method for providing a user with a
web-based service for accessing and collecting records
|
Table
information sourced from Maxval’s Assignment Database.
As per the complaint, MMR is the
owner of the above seven issued patents covering innovations regarding PI-IRs
and the electronic exchange of medical records.
The Parties:
MyMedicalRecords
provides multilingual personal health records (PHRs) and electronic safe
deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals,
employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, professional
organizations and affinity groups.
The My Medical Records PHR enables individuals and families to safely maintain their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, in one central location and instantly access them anytime from anywhere in the world using the Internet.
Walgreens together with its subsidiaries operates a network of
drugstores in the United States. It provides consumer goods and services,
pharmacy, and health and wellness services through drugstores, as well as
through mail, and by telephone and online. The company sells prescription and
non-prescription drugs; and general merchandise, including household products,
convenience and fresh foods, personal care, beauty care, photofinishing, and
candy products, as well as home medical equipment, contact lenses, vitamins and
supplements, and other health and wellness solutions.
As in complaint:
Plaintiff alleges that defendant
infringes the above patents by offering a service to customers including Manage Your Prescription Service which is claimed in the above
patents. The customers can access and manage their personal health records such
as prescriptions. This service can be accessed through its website and various
other means including internet and mobile applications. Walgreens allows
customers to create on-line account compliant with a user name and password
associated with the customer. The account is used to maintain and manage
prescription information, including the type of prescription, prescription
number, prescribed date, number of refills and notifications when those refills
become available. This information is defined as protected health information (PHI)
on Walgreens' website. A customer may add all of his or her family members to
the account, including pets and manage the entire family's prescriptions from a
single account. A physician or other healthcare provider that writes a
prescription can send it to Walgreens for inclusion in the customer's account.
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