Mealey's (March 7, 2018, 9:24 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Allegations by a patent owner that McDonald’s Corp., through its use of third-party credit authorization networks, directly infringed two patents covering a system for managing digital data were properly dismissed by an Illinois federal judge, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 6 (William Grecia v. McDonald’s Corporation, No. 17-1672, Fed. Cir.)....