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By Eric Waltmire on March 25, 2013
Move, Inc. v. Real Estate Alliance Ltd., Dkt. No. 2012-1342 (Fed. Cir. March 4, 2013) Move sought declaratory judgement of non-infringement of two of Real’s patents, U.S. 5,032,989 and U.S. 4,870,576. Real counterclaimed that Move’s “Search by Map” and “Search by Zip Code” website functions infringed the patents. The district court issued summary judgement of [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 18, 2013
Aristocrat Tech. Australia v. Int’l Game Tech., Dtk No. 2010-1426 (Fed. Cir. 2013). Aristocrat sued IGT alleging that IGT’s gambling game devices infringed U.S. Patent No. 7,056,215 (“the ’215 patent”) and U.S. Patent No. 7,108,603 (“the ’603 patent”). The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement. This case presented an issue of direct vs. indirect [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 4, 2012
MySpace, Inc. v. Graphon Corp., Dkt. No. 2011-1149 (Fed. Cir. March 2, 2012). MySpace and Craigslist sued Graphon for declaratory judgement of non-infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538, 6,850,940, 7,028,034, and 7,269,591 (patents in suit). Graphon counterclaimed for patent infringement. The district court found the claims at issue in the patents in suit were invalid [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on February 24, 2012
Typhoon Touch v. Dell Inc., et al., Dkt. No. 2009-1589 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 4, 2011). Typhoon sued Dell, Lenovo, San Due Ventures, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Apple, and HTC alleging infringement of US Pat. Nos. 5,379,057 and 5,675,362, each patent directed to a portable computer with touch screen. The appeals court reviewed the district courts finding [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on February 20, 2012
HTC Corp v. IPCom GMBH, Dkt. No. 2011-1004 (Fed. Cir. Jan 30, 2012) [PDF]. HTC sue IPcom for declaratory judgement of non-infringement of IPCom’s Patents, including U.S. Pat. No. 6,879,830 and IPCom countersued for infringement. The ’830 patent is directed to the handover of a cellular phone from one base (tower) to another, as for example, [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on February 19, 2012
Thorner v. Sony Computer, Dkt. No. 2011-1114 (Fed. Cir. Feb 1, 2012) [PDF]. Craig Thorner and Virtual Reality Feedback Co. sued Sony Corporation alleging Sony’s game controllers with tactile feedback infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,422,941. On appeal Thorner argued that the district court erred in the construction of two term from claim 1. Claim 1 [...]
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