The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today affirming a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement for Meta/Facebook against claims by Mirror Worlds Technologies that Facebook’s Timeline and Newsfeed features infringed three of its data storage patents. U.S. Patent Nos. 6,006,227; 7,865,538; and 8,255,439 are directed to “methods for storing, organizing, and presenting data in time-ordered streams (i.e., in a chronological manner) on a computer system,” according to the opinion. Mirror Worlds alleged infringement via Facebook’s “backend” computer systems related to its Timeline, Activity Log and Newsfeed features
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