Case
Filed: Oct 13, 2011
Case
closed: Jan 02, 2014
Court:
Delaware District Court
Judge:
Sue L. Robinson
Case
Summary:
United
Airlines was sued by Aeritas, a patent holder over wireless transaction
technology for mobile check-in and boarding passes. Aeritas, aka Propel
Technology Team offers mobile commerce products including mobile pass for
buying tickets online and downloading to a cell phone. The patents in question
were: US7933589 and US7209903 both entitled ‘Method and system for facilitation
of wireless e-commerce transactions’, issued on Apr 27, 2011 and Apr 24, 2007,
respectively. The patents expire[i]
by Oct 17, 2020 and are currently assigned[ii]
to Aeritas (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
According
to the complaint the defendant’s products and services offering end user mobile
applications that allow users to request a transaction and triggering an event
in response to the requests, infringe the above patents. Aeritas cites Mobile
Site, Mobile Check-in and Mobile Boarding Documents as the infringing products
and services.
It
appears that the parties agreed to end the dispute and reached a pact entitled
“Agreement” dated Dec 15, 2013. Later, they filed a stipulated motion to
dismiss, subject to the terms of settlement, pursuant to which the Court
granted the motion and ordered the claims dismissed with prejudice. Each party
will bear their own costs and fees. Terms of settlement were not disclosed.
Aeritas
also filed separate suits against Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines and
Alaska Air Group asserting the same patents, which were closed on the same day.
See
1:11-cv-00970
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[i] Expected
expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that
automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S. utility
patents.
[ii] MaxVal
offers Patent Assignment Alert service where subscribers receive email alerts
when assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of
interest are recorded.
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