53 results for 'cat:"Patent" AND cat:"Technology"'.
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. 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. 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
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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. 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. 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. Alonso grants Johnson & Johnson’s motion for summary judgment, and denies the suing plastic container manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment, on the question of whether Johnson & Johnson’s “Ziploc Endurables” products infringe on the plaintiff’s own line of silicone food containers and the method for creating them. The court finds Ziploc Endurables infringe on neither patent.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv5028, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, technology
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. 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. 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. Albright denies a tech company’s motion to transfer this patent case to the District of Idaho after it was sued by a competitor for allegedly infringing on a patent for “variable charge pump circuit with dynamic load.” The District of Idaho is not clearly more convenient, but the parties can transfer this case to the Austin venue, as both agree that venue would be better than the Waco one it’s in.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Albright, Filed On: January 2, 2024, Case #: 6:22cv855, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Venue, technology
J. Saylor partly grants a major technology company’s motion to exclude the expert testimony of a smaller technology company suing it for willful patent infringement. The smaller company’s technical expert is not qualified to claim that the larger company’s product’s commercial success is directly or largely due to its allegedly patent-infringing features.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Saylor, Filed On: December 20, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv12551, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Experts, technology
J. Cogburn orders multiple claim constructions in a patent infringement suit brought by a secure payments provider against a similar company. The provider claims that the company is illegally using particular patented technologies in its telephone processing system used to take customer payments without exposing the customers’ financial information to call center staff. The order outlines disputed terms and the suit is referred to a magistrate judge.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Cogburn, Filed On: December 19, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv486, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, technology
J. Lewison finds a lower court properly dismissed patent infringement claims brought by a consumer electronics company against a car jump starter manufacturer. The consumer electronics company argued that the car jump starter maker infringed on its lithium battery technology. However, the car jump starter manufacturer sufficiently showed that the patent is invalid for obviousness. Affirmed.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Lewison, Filed On: December 19, 2023, Case #: CA-2022-1980, Categories: patent, technology
J. Du grants the electronic gaming manufacturer's motion for summary judgment in this patent infringement suit. The gaming company is accused of infringing upon the technology company's patent for a gaming display assembly for sophisticated card tables with digital displays that provide players with game information. The accused product was in public use before the priority date of the asserted patent and there is no genuine dispute as to this material fact.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Du , Filed On: December 7, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv923, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Evidence, patent, technology
J. Ellison construes disputed terms in a patent suit filed by the creators of smart home technology. The creators' construction for almost all disputed terms, including "access browser," "control terminal," "input of Uniform Resource Locators" and others, is accepted and, therefore, the terms will be given their plain and ordinary meaning.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Ellison, Filed On: November 20, 2023, Case #: 4:22cv1973, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, technology