Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“FNIS”) filed two Covered Business Method Review (CBM) Petitions in late October (CBM2014-00020/21), asking the USPTO to review the two patents that Congress specifically discussed during floor debates prior to enacting Section 18 of the AIA. Congress identified the two subject patents (U.S. Patent No. 5,910,988 and U.S. Patent No. 6,032,137), known as “the Ballard patents”, during their discussion of the need for post-grant review.
