AutoScribe Corporation filed suit on 24 September 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Case No. 1:24-cv-04282), asserting US11620621B2 against Repay Holdings Corporation, Repay Holdings LLC, and M&A Ventures LLC. The patent covers a method of enrolling a payer through a merchant server operated by or for a payee and processing that payment via a secure server — technology squarely aimed at merchant-side payment facilitation infrastructure.

The case turned decisively at the claim construction stage. Following Judge Steve C. Jones's order adopting a Special Master's Report and Recommendation on claim construction, AutoScribe and M&A Ventures jointly stipulated that M&A did not infringe the asserted patent. The court entered judgment against AutoScribe and for M&A on all infringement claims, with AutoScribe taking nothing. M&A's remaining defenses — including any invalidity arguments — were dismissed without prejudice. The recorded basis of termination is judgment on the merits for the defendant.

Resolution in 570 days — before trial and without a damages proceeding — is consistent with claim construction functioning as the effective case-dispositive event. Once the Special Master's claim constructions were adopted, the parties' stipulation suggests the construed claim scope did not cover M&A's accused products or services. Notably, the judgment expressly covers only M&A Ventures; the record available does not disclose the final disposition as to co-defendants Repay Holdings Corporation and Repay Holdings LLC. The specific terms of the parties' Joint Stipulation of Non-Infringement are not disclosed in the available record.