Real Time Social Inventions LLC v. Yammer Inc.

Filing 14

MEMORANDUM ORDER Denying 9 MOTION to Dismiss, filed by Yammer Inc.. Signed by Judge Richard G. Andrews on 6/29/2012. (nms)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE REAL TIME SOCIAL INVENTIONS LLC, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 12-190-RGA v. YAMMER, INC., Defendant. MEMORANDUM ORDER Before the Court is a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. (D.I. 9). Plaintiffs complaint raises only a claim of direct infringement of one patent. The patent is entitled, "Multi-User On-Line Real-Time Virtual Social Networks Based upon Communities of Interest for Entertainment, Information or E-Commerce Purposes." The independent claims are method (claims 1 & 17) and apparatus (22). The allegations are sparse. No more is required. See In re Bill of Lading Transmission and Processing System Patent Litigation, 2012 WL 2044605, *7 (Fed. Cir. June 7, 2012) ("whether [a complaint] adequately pleads direct infringement is to be measured by the specificity required by Form 18."). 1 The defendant notes that early claim construction might flesh out whether there is any merit to this lawsuit. (D.I. 12, pp. 8-9). The Court will consider any such proposal at a Rule 16 1 The Federal Circuit further comments, "It will not always be true that a complaint which contains just enough information to satisfy a governing form will be sufficient under Twombly ...." Id at *7 n.6. Given the citations that follow in the footnote, I do not believe this is meant to be some sort of limitation on the holding in the text. conference, after the defendant answers the Complaint Thus, the Motion to Dismiss (D.I. 9) is DENIED.

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