569 results for 'cat:"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
Want access to unlimited case records and advanced research tools? Create your free CasePortal account now. No credit card required to register.
Try CasePortal for Free
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
J. Stark finds that the district court improperly determined a patent for dining mats for toddlers was invalid as obvious because while a reasonable fact finder could determine the prior art describes a self-sealing function, one could just as well not find that to be the case.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Stark, Filed On: April 12, 2024, Case #: 2022-1905, Categories: patent
J. Foster denies the patent claimant's motion to compel and partially grants the patent defendant's motion to compel in a suit alleging infringement of a patent for a miniature cellular modem. The information the claimant seeks is no longer relevant to any of this case's active claims following a finding that its asserted patents are invalid. The defendant seeks documents related to legal advice on the patent, investor presentations and the patent claimant's attorney's billing records. The request for billing records is granted, and the claimant shall also direct its attorney to produce documents to the extent that they may relate to inequitable conduct, prior art or possible prior art, or any decisions to omit or disclose that art to the patent office.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Foster, Filed On: April 12, 2024, Case #: 0:22cv2345, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Lourie finds that the district court properly ruled in this patent dispute concerning the drug Xifaxan, which is used to treat intestinal issues, on grounds that the claims were invalid for obviousness. Affirmed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Lourie, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 22-2153, Categories: patent
J. Kocoras partially grants and partially denies both groups of window and curtain companies’ motions for summary judgment on the plaintiff companies’ patent claims against the defendants. The plaintiff companies alleges the defendant companies are infringing on their patents for a curtain wall system used for facades in high-rise buildings, which the defendants contest. The court splits the opposing motions for summary judgment; finding the defendants have not infringed on certain elements of the system but have infringed on others.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: April 9, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv6618, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Construction, patent, Technology
J. Bencivengo partially denies Platform Science's motion for summary judgment concerning some patent infringement claims for a telematics system fleet monitor brought by Omnitracs. One of the patents at issue provides an automation solution that is "an improvement to the human operation minimizing human-error," which is a patentable technical improvement. However, another patent "only entails practicing a longstanding function, and the specification references using generic computer components and technology to do so," so it is ineligible.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Bencivengo, Filed On: April 8, 2024, Case #: 3:20cv958, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Winmill denies a patent holder's motion for partial summary judgment regarding allegations of patent infringement of three separated patents related to a machine attachment that creates simulated log siding. The patent in question covers the simulated log siding panel. The patent holder has not separately addressed the different types of siding and therefore has not shown that all siding produced by the alleged infringer infringes on the patent in question. It appears that some of the siding does not infringe on the patent.
Court: USDC Idaho, Judge: Winmill, Filed On: April 5, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv307, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Reyna finds that the district court properly ruled in this dispute over patents for a "method and system for fast access to advanced visualization of medical scans using a dedicated web portal" because the asserted claims are tied to an abstract idea, and the company failed to establish the idea may be converted into a patent-eligible invention. Affirmed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Reyna, Filed On: April 4, 2024, Case #: 2022-2109, Categories: patent
J. Wolson dismisses infringement claims concerning a patent for "re-trying access of automotive electronic control units to a storage resource" because the patent holder's expert failed to explain how Volvo automobiles practice the patent claim under the claim construction.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Wolson, Filed On: April 1, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv293, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Prost finds that the district court improperly ruled that the patent for medicine that treats schizophrenia in adults was not obvious. Reversed in part.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Prost, Filed On: April 1, 2024, Case #: 2022-1258, Categories: patent
J. King grants the pet products company an injunction regarding its complaint that the store is manufacturing and selling products, including a pet hair remover, that infringe on the pet products company's patent. The pet products company shows that the store infringed on its copyright, and evidence shows that an injunction serves in the public interest as opposed to harming the public interest.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: King, Filed On: March 31, 2024, Case #: 2:20cv1768, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, patent, Injunction
J. King denies Brooks Sports' motion for $1 million in attorney fees for the shoemaker's complaint that Brooks infringed on the shoemaker's patent titled, “Shoe with Cushioning and Speed Enhancement Midsole Components and Method for Construction Thereof.” The counsel's failure to "carry the day" before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the shoemaker's failure to obtain and test the accused DNA material does not make this case exceptional, and thus does not justify the request.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: King, Filed On: March 31, 2024, Case #: 2:17cv1322, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Attorney Fees
J. Collins grants Microsoft's motion to dismiss a language technology company's patent infringement claims. Microsoft sufficiently showed in court that the company's language technology formatting text method system is abstract and not "patent eligible."
Court: USDC Arizona, Judge: Collins, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv520, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Snyder grants L'Oreal's motion for terminating sanctions in a patent dispute over a hair-coloring dispensing system. The court found that the accused products did not infringe upon the patent, and that the patent holder did not allege a trade secret and that the information in the patent could not be protected as a trade secret. L'Oreal asserts that documents presented in the first amended complaint were inauthentic. A forensic expert determined that some documents had been edited after litigation began. Evidence shows that the patent holder "acted willfully, in bad faith, and with fault by repeatedly fabricating, destroying, and withholding important evidence."
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Snyder, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 2:18cv364, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Sanctions, Trade Secrets