The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision Wednesday affirming a district court’s finding for PayPal Holdings, Inc. that certain claims of Fintiv, Inc.’s patents for a mobile wallet payment system were invalid as indefinite. Fintiv sued PayPal for infringement of its U.S. Patent Nos. 9,892,386; 11,120,413; 9,208,488; and 10,438,196. Following claim construction, the district court found that the “payment handler terms” in the claims were indefinite, and specifically that the asserted claims were “means-plus-function” terms that failed to disclose adequate corresponding structure.
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