Here’s a trial verdict boiled down to under 140 characters: Troutman Sanders and Keker & Van Nest persuaded a jury Monday that Twitter didn’t infringe a method patent for profiling celebrities.

In January, patent lawyer Dinesh Agarwal filed infringement claims against Twitter in Alexandria, Va., federal district court over a patent he was assigned in 2002 for a “Method and System for Creating an Interactive Virtual Community of Famous People.”

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