571 results for 'cat:"Patent"'.
J. Snyder denies a patent holder's motion to amend judgment or in the alternative, motion for a new trial, on its willfulness claim in a patent infringement dispute. The court found in favor of the alleged infringer on the patent holder's willfulness claim. The patent holder has not shown that the conduct rose to the level of "wanton, malicious and bad-faith behavior required for willful infringement." The patent holder has not sufficiently identified which testimony it alleges was inadmissible or how the court relied on that testimony in its findings of fact and conclusions of law. "Leave to amend to address post-suit willfulness would not be appropriate."
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Snyder, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 2:18cv7090, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent
J. Kobick grants a restaurant management software company’s motion to stay a patent infringement and breach of contract action brought against it by a paydata management software company pending review of the relevant patent by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The board recently began the review of that patent.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Kobick, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv11539, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Contract
J. Birss finds a lower court properly dismissed a sports media company's patent claims against a sports marketing and advertising group. The sports media company argued that the sports marketing company copied its digital billboard electronic superimposition platform. However, the sports marketing company sufficiently showed in court that sporting events LED display boards method of digitally overlaying moving images with other images is obvious. Affirmed.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Birss, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: CA-2023-786, Categories: patent
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J. Bruggink grants the U.S. dismissal of pro se patent infringement claims related to cellular phones because the claim is identical to multiple other claims that have already been considered and dismissed.
Court: Court of Federal Claims, Judge: Bruggink, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 23-811C, Categories: patent
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 factual disputes make 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. Williams sustains an objection to the denial of a motion to dismiss patent infringement claims concerning the use of codes to identify networked devices to establish connections because the representative claim of the '842 patent is directed to the abstract idea of communicating identification information with an image, a well known method that has been in use for some time, and no inventive concept can transform this claim into a patent-eligible application.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Williams, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv218, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: 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. 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. 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. 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
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. 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. 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 #: 23CV1526, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: patent, Trademark, Damages
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