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PayPal Gets Albright To Ax Management Tech Patent Row

By Jasmin Jackson (August 16, 2022, 8:29 PM EDT) — US District Judge Alan Albright has tossed a patent suit against online payment platform PayPal over digital rights management technology, ruling that the patent owner failed to detail how PayPal mimicked the claimed system.

The Western District of Texas judge’s Monday order dismisses Grecia Estate Holdings LLC’s patent suit against PayPal Inc. over digital rights management technology that can manage a user’s access rights to digital media, holding that Grecia did not plead a cognizable theory of direct infringement. Judge Albright determined that Grecia hadn’t shown how PayPal’s web service — which enables customers to make and receive digital payments — performed…

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