US court dismisses patent lawsuit against Hexaware

Mid-tier IT services company Hexaware Technologies has announced on Friday that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has dismissed all claims of patent infringement against the firm filed by Natsoft and its affiliate Updraft. The dismissal passed by the court on June 9 included complaints across nine patents over two patent families.

The court found that the patents in question claimed broad, abstract ideas rather than any solid, concrete invention and were ineligible for patent protection under US law. The order also granted the plaintiffs time to file an amended complaint adding a federal claim, failing which the court will give its final judgment.