Target Keeps Win Over Product-Location Patent Suit on Appeal

Target Corp. cemented its escape from claims it infringed a family of patents relating to locating items in a store, as the Federal Circuit rejected an attempt to revive the invalidated patents.

The appeals court Friday agreed with a Wisconsin federal judge that six patents Innovaport LLC asserted in a 2022 lawsuit covered abstract concepts not eligible for protection because they describe using a computer system to tackle an age-old task. “A store clerk could receive a question from a customer regarding where a product is, use a catalog to determine where that product is, tell a customer where that ...