Morrison Foerster Wins Dismissal for RiversideFM

Morrison Foerster won a dismissal for its client RiversideFM in a patent infringement action filed by competitor Cleardoc, Inc. d/b/a/ OpenReel in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Case 1:21-cv-01422-RGA.

RiversideFM is an innovative company that offered the first remote video podcasting platform that enabled recording of lossless audio and 4k video. RiversideFM’s feature-rich platform has attracted independent and professional podcasters as well as Fortune 500 enterprise clients.

On October 6, 2021, OpenReel filed suit against Riverside alleging that it infringed U.S. Patent No. 10,560,500, and seeking a preliminary injunction. In February 2022, Judge Andrews dismissed OpenReel’s complaint on the ground that the asserted claims were directed to unpatentable abstract ideas. OpenReel filed a First Amended Complaint in which it alleged that the claims recited inventive concepts. Riverside again moved to dismiss. 

On August 15, 2022, Judge Richards Andrews dismissed OpenReel’s claims with prejudice, and dismissed OpenReel’s preliminary injunction motion as moot. Judge Andrews found that the “seemingly technical [claim] language . . . amount[e]d to no more than generic computer components” and that “nothing in the claims, specification, of FAC” suggested any inventive concept.

The Morrison Foerster team representing RiversideFM, Inc. included Michael Jacobs, Kyle Mooney, Eric Lin, and Shaun DeLacy.