Facts

On September 30, 2014, U.S. Patent No. 8,850,535 entitled "Methods and systems for identity verification in a social network using ratings" was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Street Spirit IP LLC, a Texas limited liability company, owned the '535 patent by assignment. On March 27, 2023, Street Spirit IP LLC brought an infringement claim against eHarmony Inc., a Delaware company that created and maintains a dating site, for patent infringement.

PLAINTIFF'S CONTENTIONS: Plaintiff alleged that defendant maintained, operated, and administered systems, products, and services for enabling a method of providing customer relationship management for a network that infringes one or more claims of the '535 patent. Further, plaintiff contended that defendant has and continued to induce infringement and contributory infringement by actively encouraging or instructing others to infringe and by providing related services that provide question and answer services across the Internet that cause infringement. Finally, plaintiff argued that defendant has willfully caused and will continue to cause plaintiff damage by direct and indirect infringement of their valid patents.

DEFENDANT'S CONTENTIONS: Defendant denied all contentions.

Result

The court dismissed the case.