570 results for 'cat:"Patent"'.
J. Chen finds that the patent board improperly ruled in a dispute over an "Apparatus, Method and System for a Tunneling Client Access Point" in determining unpatentability as to several claims. Reversed in part.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Chen, Filed On: May 3, 2024, Case #: 5/3/24, Categories: patent
J. Locke declines to sever and stay a patent infringement claim from a patent, false advertising and trademark complaint against three Germany-based companies alleging they manufactured, imported and sold infringing dental adhesive mixing devices, finding several factors weigh against severance. The court further grants the competitors’ motion to stay the full case pending resolution of the litigant’s appeal challenging the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision, which found several aspects of the underlying patent unenforceable.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Locke, Filed On: May 3, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv6613, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Trademark, False Advertising
J. Moore finds that the district court improperly dismissed patent infringement claims concerning electrical outlet covers for lack of jurisdiction because defendant purposely directed patent enforcement activities toward the competing manufacturer in Utah. Reversed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Moore, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 2023-1184, Categories: patent, Jurisdiction
J. Stark finds that the district court improperly granted enhanced damages for willful infringement in this patent action because the patent claims were invalid, and the action should be remanded for dismissal on mootness grounds. Reversed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Stark, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 2022-2064, Categories: Civil Procedure, patent
J. Prost finds that the district court improperly dismissed patent claims for lack of standing because the company retained an interest in the patent through the security agreement. Reversed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Prost, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 2022-2207, Categories: patent, Contract
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[Consolidated.] J. Gilstrap denies two discovery motions in patent infringement litigation for claims relating to dopants in semiconductor devices. For instance, the defendant company's motion to strike the patent holder's infringement contentions is denied since the accused features in the specified product are identified with "sufficient specificity."
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Gilstrap, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv212, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Gilstrap partly grants the motion to compel responses to a certain interrogatory and to produce documents "related to the benefits of cellular connectivity in the accused products" for a patent infringement suit. The accused company is ordered to supplement its responses to the interrogatory as specified and to produce the relevant documents if found.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Gilstrap, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv412, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Starr finds that a case against technology company Huawei, whose products a communications company claims infringe on its patented process for routing cell phone calls to local numbers to avoid long distance charges, may proceed. The patent involves more than an abstract idea, it describes a specific process which constitutes a contribution to the technological field, so it is valid. Huawei’s motion to dismiss is denied.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Starr, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv151, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, patent, Technology
J. Fallon compels a biotechnology company to produce unredacted copies of certain communications between non-attorneys and portions of a lab notebook in patent infringement claims concerning non-invasive prenatal testing technology, and denies all other requests to compel documents.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Fallon, Filed On: April 26, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv1734, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Snyder denies a patent holder's motion to amend judgment or in the alternative, motion for a new trial, on its willfulness claim in a patent infringement dispute. The court found in favor of the alleged infringer on the patent holder's willfulness claim. The patent holder has not shown that the conduct rose to the level of "wanton, malicious and bad-faith behavior required for willful infringement." The patent holder has not sufficiently identified which testimony it alleges was inadmissible or how the court relied on that testimony in its findings of fact and conclusions of law. "Leave to amend to address post-suit willfulness would not be appropriate."
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Snyder, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 2:18cv7090, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Kobick grants a restaurant management software company’s motion to stay a patent infringement and breach of contract action brought against it by a paydata management software company pending review of the relevant patent by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The board recently began the review of that patent.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Kobick, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv11539, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Contract
J. Birss finds a lower court properly dismissed a sports media company's patent claims against a sports marketing and advertising group. The sports media company argued that the sports marketing company copied its digital billboard electronic superimposition platform. However, the sports marketing company sufficiently showed in court that sporting events LED display boards method of digitally overlaying moving images with other images is obvious. Affirmed.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Birss, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: CA-2023-786, Categories: patent
J. Bruggink grants the U.S. dismissal of pro se patent infringement claims related to cellular phones because the claim is identical to multiple other claims that have already been considered and dismissed.
Court: Court of Federal Claims, Judge: Bruggink, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 23-811C, Categories: patent
J. Valderrama partially grants an American medical technology company’s motion for summary judgment for non-willfulness as to a Chinese medical technology company’s patent infringement claims. The Chinese company claims the U.S. company deliberately infringed on its patent for a fingertip pulse oximeter and an associated display. The court grants the U.S. company’s motion as to its pre-suit activities, but finds that factual disputes mean judgment on its post-suit activities inappropriate.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Valderrama, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 1:18cv825, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Health Care, patent, Technology
J. Robart denies Boeing summary judgment for the trade secrets misappropriation claim in the aircraft manufacturer's complaint alleging that Boeing infringed on the manufacturer's hybrid-electric and electric aircraft technology. Boeing argues that the manufacturer does not present expert testimony to back its claim, but the substance of the expert's report establishes a genuine dispute as to whether the alleged trade secrets were readily ascertainable.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Robart, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv896, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Trade Secrets, Experts
J. Williams sustains an objection to the denial of a motion to dismiss patent infringement claims concerning the use of codes to identify networked devices to establish connections because the representative claim of the '842 patent is directed to the abstract idea of communicating identification information with an image, a well known method that has been in use for some time, and no inventive concept can transform this claim into a patent-eligible application.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Williams, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv218, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Cote grants the bank's motion to dismiss patent infringement claims related to the patentholder's patent for a system that provides electronic banking touch points with personalized financial services for customers. The patentholder has failed to plead direct or indirect infringement by any identifiable product.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Cote, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv8801, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Lanza grants a greenhouse climate control manufacture's motion to leave to cure deficiencies concerning patent infringement claims against a greenhouse construction company. The greenhouse climate control manufacturer sufficiently showed in court that it is entitled to leave to file a third amendment complaint against the greenhouse constructor in order to gain specific details about its alleged acts of infringement.
Court: USDC Arizona, Judge: Lanza, Filed On: April 18, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv8122, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Construction, patent
J. Schroeder rules in favor of an insulating glass manufacturer in its patent infringement suit against a glass fabrication equipment firm over a specific method and apparatus for heating and tempering glass. The parties argue over the meaning of some of the terms in the patents’ claims. The firm maintains that certain claims are indefinite. However, the manufacturer’s claims construction is sufficient and adopted.
Court: USDC Middle District of North Carolina, Judge: Schroeder, Filed On: April 18, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv942, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Dimke grants the Belgian ice cream producer's second motion for default judgment for its complaint that the manufacturing company used a wrongfully obtained patent on ice-molds and related products, which caused non-party Amazon to remove the Belgian ice cream producer's "Combo Mold" product from its listings because of reports that the Belgian ice cream producer infringed on its own product. The manufacturing company's patents are invalid, because the Belgian ice cream producer has sold its Combo Mold since June 2015 and its Four Sphere Mold since August 2018, while the manufacturing company applied for design patent protection on Sep. 30, 2020 for seemingly identical product designs.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Washington, Judge: Dimke, Filed On: April 18, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv29, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The creators of TImberland boots sought to register certain features from the design of its popular boot under the Lanham Act as trade dress. The law prohibits the registration of product designs that have not acquired a distinctive meaning identifying the product with its maker in the minds of the consuming public, including Timberland boots. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum, Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 23-1150, Categories: patent, Trademark, Agency
J. Stadtmueller finds the lower court properly entered default judgment against a wholesaler, as evidence is sufficient to show it was served notice and did not defend this patent and trademark infringement action. The tool designers are entitled to statutory damages, attorney fees and costs, and equitable relief as they have established the wholesaler is liable for patent infringement, trademark infringement, false designation of origin, and trade dress infringement relating to a roof climbing tool, but the instant court dismisses the tool designers’ claim of unfair competition. Affirmed in part.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Stadtmueller, Filed On: April 12, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1526, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Trademark, Damages