Google loses this IPR, but the patent is a single, narrow CDN-selection patent with no stated materiality to Google's core business or revenue. Monitor the parallel district court case (C.D. Cal.) for any claim-construction or summary-judgment rulings that could expand or contract the patent's reach.
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Executive Summary
The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision in IPR2025-00806, finding that Google LLC (petitioner) failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that any of claims 1–20 of Sandpiper CDN, LLC's patent (U.S. 8,645,517 B2, covering policy-based content delivery network selection) are unpatentable. All challenged claims survive. The decision is a loss for Google in its ongoing district court litigation (Sandpiper CDN, LLC v. Google LLC, C.D. Cal.) but involves a single patent in a narrow technical area with no stated materiality to Google's revenue or products.
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Key Facts
- Final Written Decision: all 20 claims (1–20) of U.S. Patent 8,645,517 B2 survive — not shown unpatentable on any of the four asserted grounds (Beaumont+Hasan, Beaumont+Hasan+Biliris, Ben-Shaul, Ben-Shaul+Hasan).
- Related litigation: Sandpiper CDN, LLC v. Google LLC, No. 2:24-cv-03951 (C.D. Cal., filed May 10, 2024) is identified as a related matter.
- The patent relates to policy-based content delivery network selection using a GUI with a decision tree for DNS traffic direction — a narrow technical area.
- No evidence of objective indicia of nonobviousness was presented by either party.
Financial Impact
Not stated in the decision; no damages, revenue exposure, or market-cap impact quantified.
Risk Factors
- Google faces continued infringement exposure in the related district court litigation, though the patent's scope is limited to policy-based DNS selection.
- No stated financial exposure; the patent owner is a non-practicing entity (Sandpiper CDN, LLC), which may seek damages or an injunction.
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Documents Analyzed
This report is based on 1 PTAB decision.
| Document | Accession Number |
|---|---|
| PTAB-TRIAL Data (Synthetic) | ptab-IPR2025-00806-fwd-GOOGL |
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