Patent 7716217

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Past and pending lawsuits — plaintiffs, defendants, jurisdictions, outcomes, and notable rulings.

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PTAB activity (1)

AIA trial proceedings — IPR, PGR, CBM — filed at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board against this patent. Sourced directly from the PTAB Trial API.

  • IPR2025-01248IPRfiled Jul 10, 2025vs. Meta Platform Inc.Terminated

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Cases on file (2)

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Specific litigation cases in our database that name US patent 7716217. The free-form analysis below may also discuss cases beyond this list.

Litigation summary

Past and pending lawsuits — plaintiffs, defendants, jurisdictions, outcomes, and notable rulings.

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US Patent 7716217, "Determining relevance of electronic content," is involved in the following known litigation:

1. PTAB Case IPR2025-01248

  • Plaintiff(s): Petitioner (details not provided in the patent text).
  • Defendant(s): STERLING COMPUTERS Corp (Patent Owner).
  • Jurisdiction: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
  • Case Number: IPR2025-01248.
  • Filing Date: Implied to be in 2025 (exact date not provided in the patent text).
  • Outcome or Current Status: Procedural Termination.

2. PTAB Case IPR2025-00430

  • Plaintiff(s): Petitioner (details not provided in the patent text).
  • Defendant(s): STERLING COMPUTERS Corp (Patent Owner).
  • Jurisdiction: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
  • Case Number: IPR2025-00430.
  • Filing Date: Implied to be in 2025 (exact date not provided in the patent text).
  • Outcome or Current Status: Pending - Instituted.

3. PTAB Case IPR2025-00299

  • Plaintiff(s): Petitioner (details not provided in the patent text).
  • Defendant(s): STERLING COMPUTERS Corp (Patent Owner).
  • Jurisdiction: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
  • Case Number: IPR2025-00299.
  • Filing Date: Implied to be in 2025 (exact date not provided in the patent text).
  • Outcome or Current Status: Pending - Instituted.

4. US Case filed in Texas Western District Court

  • Plaintiff(s): Not specified in the patent text. STERLING COMPUTERS Corp, as the current assignee, is the likely plaintiff.
  • Defendant(s): Not specified in the patent text.
  • Jurisdiction: Texas Western District Court.
  • Case Number: 1:24-cv-00552.
  • Filing Date: Implied to be in 2024 (exact date not provided in the patent text).
  • Outcome or Current Status: Not specified in the patent text.

The information above is directly derived from the provided patent document for US7716217. Further details regarding the specific petitioners in the PTAB cases, the exact filing dates for all cases, and the defendant(s) and current status of the district court case were not explicitly stated within the provided patent text. Live web searches for these specific case numbers in conjunction with the patent number did not yield additional definitive details beyond what was already presented in the original patent document.

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