In mid-February, Facebook, Inc., Snap Inc., and Twitter, Inc., filed motions to dismiss the patent-infringement lawsuits filed against the social media giants in late November by Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Background PARC is Xerox’s storied research-and-development (R&D) subsidiary. Xerox recently announced plans to make PARC into a new “Innovation” business (see “Xerox Announces