A patent dispute over online real estate map search technology reached its final end.

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The Supreme Court's action here was a denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari, meaning the losing party asked the Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit decision and the Court declined to do so. When the Supreme Court denies certiorari, it does not issue a ruling on the merits of the underlying dispute. It simply means the justices chose not to take the case, and the lower court's decision stands as the final word. Because the source text provides only the one-line notation that certiorari was denied, the specific legal questions, the parties' arguments, and the Federal Circuit's reasoning are not available for detailed explanation here. What is known is that the case involved Real Estate Alliance Ltd. and Move, Inc., and it traveled through the Federal Circuit, which is the appellate court that handles patent-related appeals. The practical effect of this denial is that whatever the Federal Circuit decided remains the binding outcome between these parties. No further review by the Supreme Court will occur in this matter unless an entirely new and separate legal proceeding were initiated. No dissent from the denial of certiorari is indicated in the source text, and no specific holdings or reasoning from the Supreme Court itself are available to report.

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