We wonder what software each party’s lawyers will be using to bill them?
Reuters
Nov 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court heard arguments this week over a patent owner’s bid to revive allegations that LexisNexis’ (RELR.LJ), opens new tab time tracking software for attorneys infringes one of its patents.
A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday questioned Realtime Tracker Inc’s request to overturn a decision that its software innovations for tracking billable hours were unpatentable.
“Can you do that same sort of tracking using a pen, paper and stopwatch?” U.S. Circuit Judge Tiffany Cunningham asked a Realtime attorney during the oral argument.
Realtime sued Lexis in New York federal court in 2021 over its patent covering a system that two New York attorneys developed for automatically tracking billable time on a computer. It accused Lexis of infringing the patent with its Juris Suite Timer software.
Reuters News’ parent company Thomson Reuters is a competitor of LexisNexis.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer sided with Lexis and dismissed the case last year, finding Realtime’s patent was invalid because it covered a patent-ineligible abstract idea.
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