On March 24, 2021, U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly of the District of Delaware, granted a defendant's motion to dismiss claims for contributory and induced infringement and enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284
On April 1st, the Supreme Court held 9-0, in
Facebook v. Duguid, that equipment
must be capable of random or sequential number generation in order
to qualify as an automatic telephone dialing system
under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), among
other things, restricts certain communications made with an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS). The TCPA
defines an ATDS as equipment that can both store or produce
telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number
generator, and dial those numbers. The interpretive question
before the Court was whether the phrase using a random or
At long last, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on
Background
For any company that markets via text messages, the Telephone
Consumer Protection Act ( TCPA ) has been a major source
of potential liability, providing for steep statutory damages for
any company that uses an automatic telephone dialing system
( autodialer ) to send text messages to consumers without
their prior express consent. The TCPA defines an autodialer as
equipment with the capacity to both store or produce
telephone numbers to be called, using a random sequential number
generator, and to dial those numbers. 47 U.S.C. §
227(a)(1).
Over the years, a circuit split emerged over the critical issue
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The U.S. Department of Justice ( DOJ ) has focused on cryptocurrency in the last six months, while consumer interest hits all-time highs.
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