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In blow to Fintiv, panel upholds US court’s patent indefiniteness holding

By Melissa Ritti ( April 30, 2025, 22:06 GMT | Insight) -- Patent infringement litigation against PayPal Holdings was correctly resolved at the claim construction stage, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled today, leaving intact a Texas federal judge’s determination that “payment-handler” terms in the specifications of four Fintiv patents “disclose no structure at all, much less an algorithm for performing the recited functions.” Their precedential decision not only affirms the invalidation of those same four patents as indefinite but also makes clear that omitting the word “means,” or relying on connecting terms, may not go far enough to save claims from being subject to means-plus-function treatment.The invalidation of four Fintiv patents as indefinite will stand, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a precedential decision today....

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