Federal Government Seeks Dismissal of Patent Infringement Suit Against USPTO Citing Prior Invalidity Ruling

The federal government has moved to dismiss a lawsuit that claims the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s website infringes on patents relating to two-factor authentication. According to the government, a patent within the same family was invalidated in 2016 by a different court, which ruled that the patent contained “nothing inventive.” For further details, you can read the original summary here.