The case is Reframe Technologies LLC v. Roblox Corporation, No. 1:26-cv-01112 (D. Del.), filed September 3, 2026. Reframe says it is a New Mexico company, and the complaint describes Roblox as a Delaware corporation with an established place of business in San Mateo, California. Venue was pleaded under 28 U.S.C. 1400(b).
The patent
U.S. Patent 7,552,870, titled Trading Network Resources, issued June 30, 2009 from an application filed March 16, 2006. Claim 1 covers a method of authorizing the use and trading of network resources that keeps two kinds of accounts, user accounts with balances and accounts for network resource access gateway operators, where credit on an operator account can act as credit on a user account. On a request for substantially immediate provision of network resources that identifies one account of each kind, the method authorizes or denies the request based at least partly on the user account balance and then adjusts the balances of both accounts by amounts that depend on the resources used.
What the complaint alleged
Reframe alleged that Roblox directly infringed, and after service would induce infringement of, one or more claims of the '870 patent. The complaint identified the accused products and exemplary claims only in claim charts attached as Exhibit 2, which are not available, and it sought damages under 35 U.S.C. 284 and an exceptional case finding under 35 U.S.C. 285.
The dismissal
The docket shows a notice of voluntary dismissal filed September 24, 2026 (ECF No. 7) and a so-ordered entry closing the civil case the same day (ECF No. 8). Reframe's other same-day suits on the patent, Nos. 1:26-cv-01113 and 1:26-cv-01114, remain open, with answer deadlines extended by stipulation.