Addressing infringement of a method claim by one or two actors,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a
district court's grant of summary judgment of no infringement,
but in doing so found no direct infringement and remanded on
indirect infringement for consideration under its recent en
banc decision in Akamai. Move, Inc. v. Real
Estate Alliance Ltd., Case No. 12-1342 (Fed. Cir., Mar. 4,
2013) (Lourie, J.)
Real Estate Alliance Ltd. (REAL) holds a patent relating to
methods for locating available real estate property using a
zoom-enabled map. The claim required creating a database of
available real estate properties; displaying a map of a geographic
area; selecting a first area having boundaries within the
geographic area; zooming into the first area to display a more
detailed view of the selected first area; displaying the zoomed
area; and then allowing further selecting, zooming and displaying
of additional areas within the first selected area.
