R2 Solutions LLC v. Booking.com B.V.

On November 29, 2021, R2 Solutions LLC (“R2 Solutions”  or “Plaintiff”), represented by Edward R. Nelson, III of Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC, filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Booking.com B.V. (“Booking.com” or “Defendant”), seeking damages, supplemental damages and royalties, among other reliefs, for the Defendant’s alleged infringement of the United States Patents owned by the Plaintiff. This case was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas with Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III presiding.

The Plaintiff filed this complaint for the alleged infringement of the United States Patents: United States Patent No. 8,190,610 (“the ’610 patent”), United States Patent No. 8,341,157 (“the ’157 patent”), United States Patent No. 7,698,329 (“the ’329 patent”), and United States Patent No. 8,209,317 (“the ’317 patent”) (collectively, the “Patents-in-suit) owned by the Plaintiff.

In their complaint, the Plaintiff alleged that, “R2 Solutions is the owner of the ’610 patent with all substantial rights to the ’610 patent, including the exclusive right to enforce, sue, and recover damages for past and future infringements.”

The Plaintiff further alleged that, “The inventions described and claimed in the ’610 patent improve the speed, efficiency, effectiveness, and functionality of computer systems. Moreover, the inventions provide an improvement in computer functionality rather than economic or other tasks for which a computer is used in its ordinary capacity. For example, the ’610 patent states that the disclosed inventions “enhance[] the utility of the MapReduce programming methodology.” Id. at Abstract, 1:31–33, 1:66–2:2.””

The Plaintiff also alleged that, “Booking.com has directly infringed and continues to directly infringe one or more claims of the ’610 patent in this District and elsewhere in Texas and the United States. 40. To this end, Booking.com has infringed and continues to infringe, either by itself or via an agent, at least claims 1–5, 17–21, 33–34, and 40–41 of the ’610 patent by, among other things, making, offering to sell, selling, testing and/or using the Booking.com data analytics system built on Apache Hadoop.”

Similar allegations have been made by the Plaintiff with reference to the alleged infringement of other Patents-in-suit. 

There are four claims for relief laid down by the Plaintiff, one for the alleged infringement of each of the Patents-in-suit.

In their prayer for relief, the Plaintiff requested the Court for a judgement that the Defendant directly infringed one or more claims of each of the Patents-in-suit and an award for past and future damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284, including supplemental damages together with reasonable ongoing royalties and pre- and post-judgment interest including attorneys’ fees and costs of suit and any other relief the Court deems just.

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