Infringement action filed 12 Jun 2025 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and closed 29 Apr 2026, with 4 patents asserted. Recorded basis of termination: voluntary dismissal.
A system and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputs is provided. A user utterance may be received at an input device, and a conversational, natural language processor may identify a request from the utterance. At least one advertisement may be selected and presented to the user based on the identified request. The advertisement may be presented as a natural language response, thereby creating a conversational feel to the presentation of advertisements. The request and the user's subsequent interaction with the advertisement may be tracked to build user statistical profiles, thus enhancing subsequent selection and presentation of advertisements.
A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.
3 on recordIPR2025-00866 · Patentability · filed by Samsung GroupIPR2020-01367 · Other · filed by Amazon.com, Inc.IPR2020-01367 · filed by Amazon.com, Inc.
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Outcome
Basis of termination
From the record · verbatim
"The parties having so agreed, it is ordered that: (1) The proceeding is DISMISSED under Fed. R. App. P. 42 (b). (2) Each side shall bear their own costs."
Case 25-1854 · Fed. Cir. · closed 29 April 2026
Source: case record, verbatim. The quoted paragraph is the basis-of-termination text as filed.
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25-1854 is a patent infringement action brought by Amazon.com, Inc. against VB Assets, LLC, filed on 12 Jun 2025 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The case closed on 29 April 2026.
Which patents were asserted in 25-1854?
US7818176B2 (“System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based input”), assigned to VB ASSETS, LLC, currently active; US8073681B2 (“System and method for a cooperative conversational voice user interface”), assigned to VB ASSETS, LLC, currently active; US9626703B2 (“Voice commerce”), assigned to VB ASSETS, LLC; US9269097B2 (“System and method for delivering targeted advertisements and/or providing natural language processing based on advertisements”), assigned to VB ASSETS, LLC. The record also lists Amazon’s Alexa Products.
How was case 25-1854 terminated?
The recorded basis of termination is voluntary dismissal. The termination text reads: "The parties having so agreed, it is ordered that: (1) The proceeding is DISMISSED under Fed. R. App. P. 42 (b). (2) Each side shall bear their own costs."
What does voluntary dismissal mean?
A voluntary dismissal is one the plaintiff asks for rather than one the court imposes. Where both sides stipulate to it, it commonly signals a settlement that is not filed on the public docket.
How long did case 25-1854 take?
321 calendar days, from filing on 12 Jun 2025 to closure on 29 April 2026.
Who were the attorneys and the judge in 25-1854?
Brandon P. Evans, J. David Hadden, Johnathan Chai, Jonathan G. Tamimi, Saina S. Shamilov and Todd Richard Gregorian are recorded as counsel for plaintiff Amazon.com. Christopher D. Mays, David Greenbaum, James C. Yoon, Jamie Otto, Kelsey Catina, Ryan Ronald Smith and Steffen Nathanael Johnson appear for defendant VB Assets.
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