Order Granting Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings,
Protegrity USA, Inc., et al. v. Netskope Inc.,
Case No. 15-cv-02515-YGR (Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers)
The NorCal IP Blog has extensively covered the increasing
popularity of 35 U.S.C. §101 motions
post-Alice, most recently
here. In Protegrity, Judge Rogers continued
the trend of increased judicial scrutiny of software patents in
granting Netskope's motion for judgment on the pleadings under
FRCP 12(c). Judge Rogers granted the motion without the benefit of
Markman proceedings or substantial discovery,
just eight months after Protegrity filed its complaint.
Protegrity accused Netskope of infringing a single patent, U.S.
Patent No. 7,305,707 ("the '707 Patent"), entitled
"Method for Intrusion Detection in a Database System."
The claims are directed to the use of intrusion detection policies
to manage user access to a particular database. For example, a
policy could be applied to limit the amount of information a
