569 results for 'cat:"Patent"'.
J. Jordan grants summary judgment to the defendant business entities in a telematics systems developer's suit alleging breach of contract and patent infringement claims over the alleged misuse of its intellectual property. The court lacks personal jurisdiction over the German-based entity, and the claims against the other entity are barred by a settlement and patent license agreement between the developer and the entities' parent company.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv808, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Licensing, patent, Contract
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
J. Blakey mostly denies the sued card shuffler supplier’s motion for summary judgment on antitrust and patent claims brought by the suing group of card shuffler suppliers. The court allows all the plaintiffs’ claims to move forward, save for one patent fraud claim regarding two prototype card shuffler devices, finding the plaintiffs have not provided sufficient evidence to back up their claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Blakey, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv1846, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Antitrust, Fraud, patent
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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. 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. 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
J. Birss finds a lower court improperly dismissed patent claims brought by an excavator against an industrial machine company. The industrial machine company argued that it did not infringe on the excavator's telehandler machine configurations. However, the excavator sufficiently showed in court that the machine company copied its longitudinal, rotating system invention patent titled "Method of Operating a Working Machine" without permission. Reversed.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Birss, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: CA-2022-2489, Categories: Construction, Evidence, patent
J. Edwards grants the ketchup bottle manufacturer's motion to compel discovery. The plastic packaging manufacturer alleged the ketchup bottle manufacturer infringed upon its "oxygen scavenging" technology, and the bottle manufacturer seeks information regarding the packaging manufacturer's testing process. By providing certain testing information in its complaint, the packaging manufacturer relied on its allegedly privileged material and the bottle manufacturer's substantial need for this information is presumed.
Court: USDC Western District of Kentucky, Judge: Edwards , Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv110, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery, Technology
J. Douglas grants Rolex's petition for panel rehearing of this trademark dispute. The district court properly found the watch refurbisher infringed upon Rolex’s trademark while refusing to disgorge it of its profits according to the laches defense. The court's injunction should be modified to include all non-Rolex parts used in refurbishment, and the district court must clarify certain vague language used in its order. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Douglas , Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 22-10866, Categories: patent, Technology
J. Berton allows an electronic company to conduct limited venue discovery in a patent dispute before ruling on a motion from a competitor it sued to either dismiss this case or transfer it to the District of Delaware. Venue is a “threshold issue” here, because if this case is ultimately transferred, the arguments for dismissal would be best considered by the other court.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Berton, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 6:23cv726, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Venue, Discovery
J. Jones grants the consumer relationships software manufacturer's motion for re-taxation of costs and $6.8 million in attorney fees. Although summary judgment was granted in favor of the manufacturer in this suit alleging that it infringed certain cyber patents, a subsequently discovered clerical error supports the manufacturer's motion. Also, because the patentee's continuing to litigate after claim construction ended any likelihood of prevailing on the merits, an award of attorney’s fees is warranted.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Jones , Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 3:13cv628, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Attorney Fees, Technology
[Consolidated.] J. Osteen defers consideration of a Silicon Carbide fabrication facility’s argument that its high-voltage power semiconductor patent claim term is indefinite at this stage, and so no claim construction can happen. The Purdue University Board of Trustees says construction of patent claim terms must proceed, but since the term is currently indefinite, consideration must be deferred.
Court: USDC Middle District of North Carolina, Judge: Osteen, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv840, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Education, patent, Technology
J. Winmill grants a seller's motion to compel discovery in a patent dispute involving the sale of a log-siding machine. The seller holds several patents covering the log-siding machine and the log-siding itself and alleges the buyer fabricated a set of discs for use with the machine which violate the seller's patents. The buyer is compelled to produce revenue information which the seller seeks.
Court: USDC Idaho, Judge: Winmill, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv307, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Knapp denies, in part, the competitor's motion to compel discovery, ruling its requests for "all literature or other materials" related both to the patentholder's crossbows and any of its confidentiality agreements with third parties are overly broad and would pose an undue burden on the company.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Knapp, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv598, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Discovery
J. Sannes rules in favor of Amazon on a patent infringement lawsuit alleging the technology in its Alexa voice-assistant devices infringe on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s natural language processing technology, finding the school’s patent invalid on the basis that the underlying technology contain no inventive concept and is therefore not eligible for patent protection.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Sannes, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 1:18cv549, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Technology
J. Kennelly dismisses Puma Biotechnology's claims against Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals alleging that the competitor's drug Tagrisso infringes on Puma's patent. Puma lacks standing because its exclusive license does not apply to the relevant compound in Tagrisso. However, another drug maker, Wyeth LLC, holds enough exclusionary rights in the patent to establish an injury-in-fact for Article III purposes. All other summary judgment motions on invalidity, written description and non-infringement of Tagrisso fail on the bases of claim construction.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1338, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent