426 results for 'nos:"Patent - Property Rights"'.
J. Tunheim partially grants the university's motion for summary judgment that a Patent Cooperation Treaty application is not prior art which undermines the validity of the university's patents for cellular technology, and denies the various phone service providers and phone manufacturers' motions for summary judgment on the university's patent-infringement claims. The providers and manufacturers may rely on the application for prior art arguments, but the associated patent is not prior art. Issues of material fact remain as to the providers and manufacturers' non-infringement arguments, and they have not met the high bar to prove inequitable conduct required to support their allegations that the patents are unenforceable.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Tunheim, Filed On: February 23, 2024, Case #: 0:14cv4672, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Jarbou finds that U.S. Patent 11,348,491, a utility patent for a school bus sign, infringed a competitor's sign because an ordinary person would conclude the sign's lighting and framing were substantially similar to the competitor's work.
Court: USDC Western District of Michigan, Judge: Jarbou, Filed On: February 23, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1009, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Jung denies the defendant drugmakers' motion to dismiss or for a more definite statement in the plaintiff drugmakers' suit against them claiming that the defendants' as-yet-unapproved epinephrine products will infringe the plaintiffs' existing patents for epinephrine products if approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that they have an interest in the patents-in-suit, that they have received required certification in the form of two notice letters, that the defendants hold the disputed new drug application and that the proposed product falls within the claims of their patent.
Court: USDC Middle District of Florida, Judge: Jung, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 8:23cv1953, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Commerce, Patent
J. Tunheim affirms a magistrate judge's order denying the patent defendants' motions to strike portions of one expert's report and the entirety of another's supplemental report. The magistrate judge did not err in only addressing the challenge to the first expert's opinions on preclusion grounds, since that was the only argument raised. As to the second expert, the magistrate judge appropriately weighed the relevant factors.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Tunheim, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 0:14cv4672, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Experts
J. Ludwig enters an order constructing the claims in the technology and intellectual property company's lawsuit alleging a mobile app IKEA uses to help customers locate products in its stores violates the company's patents. The court lays out the construction of disputed terms such as "user interface," "a method of providing product location information within a store," and "a system for providing product-related information within a store" and constructs the plain and ordinary meanings of undisputed terms such as "mobile device." The parties are ordered to meet and confer on dates regarding discovery and dispositive motions.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Ludwig, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv789, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
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J. Rosenthal grants, in part, a group of treatment centers' motion to dismiss certain claims filed by a company that specializes in physiologic insulin resensitization treatments for diabetes. The company does not have standing to bring copyright and trademark dilution claims, and it fails to identify a trade secret that was misappropriated.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Rosenthal, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv3062 , NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, Trade Secrets, Trademark
J. Boulee overrules the parties' objections and adopts the special master's report and recommendation with respect to claim construction of certain patent terms. The report arises from a dispute over a patent for a catheter tray packaging system. It is not necessary at this point in the proceedings to add any clarifications to the special master's proposed construction of the term "catheter assembly." The special master's construction of other terms resolved the parties' dispute with respect to those terms. The action is referred to private mediation.
Court: USDC Northern District of Georgia, Judge: Boulee, Filed On: February 20, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv3981, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Rodriguez grants a stay in a dispute over U.S. Patent No. 11,401,779, entitled “Hydraulic Fracturing Plan and Execution of Same,” and U.S. Patent No. 11,560,770, because inter partes review is necessary to resolve the dispute.
Court: USDC Colorado, Judge: Rodriguez, Filed On: February 14, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1180, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Patent
J. Boyle denies a major consumer electronics producer’s motion for a temporary restraining order and anti-suit injunction after a European competitor brought patent infringement allegations against it. The producer, in a counterclaim, seeks the injunction to stop its competitor from implementing injunction orders in Colombia and Brazil, preventing the producer from selling its products in those countries. However, the producer fails to sufficiently evidence that entering a global licensing agreement with its competitor would resolve the underlying infringement claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: February 14, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv569, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Technology, Injunction
J. Burke denies manufacturers of refined coal a ruling that five patents for reducing mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants are not infringed by their actions of selling coal to power plants. Several plants obtained licenses and releases for the patents, but the manufacturers were not released from pre-license infringement claims.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Burke, Filed On: February 13, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv1334, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Energy, Licensing, Patent
J. Kasubhai denies the adhesive manufacturing company's motion for a new trial for the software company's lawsuit alleging that the adhesive manufacturing company copied the protected design of the software company's patent for its serial number encoder, as the patent partially relates to systems for encoded and commissioned wireless radio frequency identification devices. The adhesive manufacturing company claims that a new trial is warranted because the court improperly excluded the opinion of its invalidity expert, but the adhesive manufacturing company does nothing to prove that the court's thorough review of the expert's testimony should not have resulted in his exclusion.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Kasubhai, Filed On: February 9, 2024, Case #: 6:17cv1685, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Experts
J. Stadtmueller denies the bath products company's motion to dismiss a patent infringement lawsuit from the inventor of a method of using carved acrylic plastic sheets to simulate tiles for lining baths and showers. The company's argument that the inventor lacks standing fails, in part because the inventor's claim to title is not in dispute, and there is insufficient evidence at this point to establish that the company's representative co-invented the disputed method anyway.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Stadtmueller, Filed On: February 8, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv908, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Kasubhai denies the adhesive manufacturing company's renewed motion for judgment in the software company's lawsuit alleging that the adhesive manufacturing company copied the protected design of the software company's patent for its serial number encoder, as the patent partially relates to systems for encoded and commissioned wireless radio frequency identification devices. The adhesive manufacturing company claims that Dr. Engels' testimony qualifies for the substantially different evidence exception to the mandate rule, but Dr. Engels' testimony is not materially different because it does not alter the language of the patent.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Kasubhai, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: 6:17cv1685, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Experts
J. Conley grants summary judgment to Target in a lawsuit from an intellectual property transfer company claiming Target violated six of its patents for technology to help customers locate products in a store using computerized systems. Because all of the patents in question are directed to the same abstract idea of "collecting, analyzing, retrieving and displaying information," and nothing else about the patent claims make them into something more than abstract ideas, the company's arguments fail. The company's motion for partial summary judgment is denied, and its other motions to strike, for claims construction and for a claims construction hearing are denied as moot.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Conley, Filed On: February 6, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv425, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Kennelly partially grants multiple motions from both parties in this patent infringement suit. A data management company claims Amazon infringed on three of its patents for data storage protocols, and in turn Amazon brought counterclaims for non-infringement, unpatentability, unenforceability and invalidity. In a complex ruling, the court partially grants and partially denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment for portions of one other’s claims. The court also denies Amazon’s motion to strike analysis from one of the data management company’s experts, but grants the data management company’s motion to strike the analysis from one of Amazon’s experts.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: February 6, 2024, Case #: 1:18cv8175, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Experts, Technology
J. Bryson grants default judgment against a company that sells body sculpting devices that allegedly infringe an plaintiff's patents and trademarks by ordering removal of all infringing website content. However, money damages should be denied for lack of supporting evidence as to the number of infringing products that had been sold.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Bryson, Filed On: February 6, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv359, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Trademark, Damages
J. Fallon declines to dismiss infringement claims concerning two patents directed to establishing a point-to-point connection between electronic devices through the use of an image pattern because the claims are not directed to an abstract idea set forth under step one of the "Alice" analysis.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Fallon, Filed On: February 5, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv218, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Behm grants a manufacturer dismissal of patent infringement claims as moot concerning its “Electrostatically Charged Multi‐Acting Nasal Application, Product, and Method,” U.S. Patent No. 8,163,802, because the manufacturer stopped selling the disputed product.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Michigan, Judge: Behm, Filed On: February 2, 2024, Case #: 4:21cv10312, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Patent
J. Whitehead grants Microsoft leave to amend its invalidity contentions against 53 of the computer consulting company's 54 claims that Microsoft wrongfully uses the computer consulting company's patented technology connected to systems and techniques for archiving and restoring files within its file hosting service "Microsoft OneDrive." The computer consulting company will not face undue prejudice if Microsoft amends its invalidity contentions, because Microsoft did not act in bad faith and any alleged prejudice can be cured with an amended case schedule.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Whitehead, Filed On: February 2, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv1545, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Technology
J. Robart grants the aircraft manufacturer's motion to seal its Dec. 29, 2023 letter to the court in its lawsuit accusing Boeing of infringing on the aircraft manufacturer's hybrid-electric and electric aircraft technology. Boeing does not oppose this motion, which the aircraft manufacturer puts forth because its interrogatory responses "in part reflect Zunum’s confidential and proprietary business information and may reflect information Zunum learned from documents that Boeing produced in this litigation and designated confidential."
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Robart, Filed On: January 31, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv896, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Discovery
J. Robart orders a supplemental briefing on the manufacturer's motion to dismiss the metal supplier's complaint that the manufacturer infringed on the metal supplier's patents related to fire-blocking devices. The metal supplier seems to misunderstand the previous order to argue for the sufficiency of its patent allegations, so it has until Feb. 9, 2024 to file a supplemental brief addressing this. The manufacturer and its co-defendants may file an optional supplemental reply to that supplemental brief by no later than Feb. 16, 2024.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Robart, Filed On: January 29, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv918, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Patent