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On March 23, 2024, Nearmap US, Inc. (“Nearmap”) filed a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 10,671,648 (“the ’648 Patent”) (“IPR716”), assigned to Eagle View Technologies, Inc. (“Eagle View”). The ’648 Patent relates to integrating information associated with particular geographic locations in a centralized database that may be queried for a time history of any of the locations. Nearmap asserted four grounds of unpatentability, consisting of an anticipation ground and three obviousness gounds. Each ground relied at least in part on U.S. Patent No. 9,501,507 to Harris et al. (“Harris”).