O:\RSWL\ECF Ready\16-00782 Zkey V. Facebook
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ZKEY INVESTMENTS, LLC, ) CV No. 16-00782-RSWL-KS ) 12 Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER Re: DEFENDANT’S 13 v. ) MOTION FOR SUMMARY ) JUDGMENT [53] 14 FACEBOOK INC., ) ) 15 ) Defendant. ) 16 ) 17 I. INTRODUCTION 18 Currently before the Court is Defendant Facebook, 19 Inc.’s (“Defendant”) Motion for Summary Judgment 20 (“Mot.”) [53] against Plaintiff Zkey Investments, LLC 21 (“Plaintiff”). The Court, having reviewed all papers 22 and arguments submitted pertaining to this Motion, NOW 23 FINDS AND RULES AS FOLLOWS: Defendant’s Motion for 24 Summary Judgment [53] is GRANTED. 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 1 1 II. BACKGROUND 2 A. Factual Background 3 Plaintiff’s action alleges that Defendant’s online 4 networking services infringe on United States Patent 5 No. 6,820,204 (“‘204 Patent”) in violation of 35 U.S.C. 6 § 271. 7 Plaintiff is a limited liability company existing 8 under the laws of Delaware with its principal place of 9 business in New York. Compl. 1:5-7, ECF No. 1. 10 Plaintiff owns the ‘204 Patent, entitled “System and 11 Method for Selective Information Exchange” and has the 12 right to sue and recover damages for infringement 13 thereof. Id. at 4:2-6. The ‘204 Patent’s abstract 14 describes the invention as follows: 15 A system and method for providing users with 16 granular control over arbitrary information 17 that allows for selective, real-time 18 information sharing in a communications network 19 such as the Internet is provided.
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