426 results for 'nos:"Patent - Property Rights"'.
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
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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. 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. 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. 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
J. Menendez grants summary judgment to the defendant ladder maker in its competitor's suit alleging patent infringement. No reasonable jury could conclude that the defendant's ladders infringe a limitation in the plaintiff's patent requiring that "a substantial amount of the first bracket is disposed within a cavity defined by the first component" of the ladder. The defendant ladder maker's motion to exclude expert testimony is also granted in part, since the expert failed to apply the court's claim construction in his opinions regarding the cavity limitation.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Menendez, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 0:20cv2497, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Experts
Magistrate Fallon declines to dismiss patent claims for willful and contributory infringement because a pre-suit notice letter provided knowledge of infringement, and the pleadings did not undermine that the accused products are not a staple article or commodity of commerce suitable for non-infringing use. Also, false marking and advertising claims have been sufficiently pleaded to survive at this stage.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Fallon, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv80, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
Magistrate Fallon declines to compel the reproduction of unredacted copies of documents containing training about a 2013 FTC decision and order that had been withheld and/or redacted based on attorney-client privilege because plaintiffs did not waive privilege by using training presentations as both a sword and a shield.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Fallon, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv245, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Discovery, Privilege
J. Arguello grants a company that designs plunger lift systems dismissal of a competitor's infringement counterclaims for patent invalidity because the competitor failed to sufficiently explain the nature of the factual allegations in 211 pages.
Court: USDC Colorado, Judge: Arguello, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2145, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Klausner grants the streaming service's motion for attorney fees for its complaint alleging that Netflix infringed on the former's patents. Netflix refusing to withdraw its invalidity defense before trial caused the streaming service harm, because several incidents of Netflix's conduct indicates that it already abandoned the defense before trial but pretended otherwise to have the streaming service spend more resources against the defense. The streaming service may seek attorney fees related to invalidity from Oct. 15, 2023 to Oct. 19, 2023.
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Klausner, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv7556, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Attorney Fees
J. Brimmer allows an environmental group to continue claims alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 10,907,848 and 10,072,863 because microprocessor controller components were concrete and sufficiently specific.
Court: USDC Colorado, Judge: Brimmer, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2235, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Ludwig grants the pharmaceutical company's motion to dismiss the Irish company's lawsuit claiming the pharmaceutical company infringed two of its patents related to the administration of ephedrine sulfate to patients under anesthesia using glass vials and syringes. The pharmaceutical company is based in Illinois and does not have sufficient contacts with or business in Wisconsin for there to be general, specific or personal jurisdiction, so the pharmaceutical company's motion to dismiss the Irish company's first amended complaint is granted.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Ludwig, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv299, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Jurisdiction
J. Noreika grants the U.S. judgment as a matter of law since evidence did not support the finding of no direct or induced infringement of patents related to a two-drug regimen for HIV infections. However, a new trial is not warranted because the verdict on each of the three theories of invalidity was supported by substantial evidence.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Noreika, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv2103, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Goldberg grants summary judgment of noninfringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,219,730 concerning Bluetooth modules contained in Sony video game controllers because the patent holder failed to prove the module was equivalent to the patent's logic diagram under the function-way-result test.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Goldberg, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:17cv135, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent