White & Case Secures Victory on Behalf of Snap Inc. in US Federal Circuit Patent Dispute

Global law firm White & Case LLP has secured a significant victory on behalf of Snap Inc. in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Finding for Snap, the Federal Circuit affirmed a final written decision from the US Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), finding invalid a patent asserted by Xerox Corp. against a trio of social media companies—including Snap—directed to use of data analysis on mobile devices.

Xerox's appeal attacked the claim construction for a phrase that appeared in all the challenged claims of its US Patent No. 8,489,599, a patent directed to "techniques and systems for creating and presenting content based on contextual information." Snap had secured a construction for this phrase at the PTAB that encompassed its primary asserted prior art reference. Snap successfully defended this construction at the Federal Circuit, with the Court determining that Xerox sought to improperly add limitations not recited by the claims.

As a result, the Court affirmed the PTAB's ruling and affirmed the PTAB's invalidation of all 25 claims of the '599 patent.

The White & Case team representing Snap was led by Intellectual Property partners Yar Chaikovsky and David Okano (both in Silicon Valley).

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