Klarquist filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of SAS Institute and a coalition of technology and industry leaders in EcoFactor v. Google, urging that trial courts more rigorously enforce their gate-keeping duties under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert. In a rare grant of […]
Klarquist represented Amazon.com, Inc. in obtaining dismissal of a patent suit entitled Huang v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 23-CV-04679-NC, 2024 WL 413355 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 26, 2024). Huang had sued Amazon for alleged patent infringement through its sale of more than 30 consumer electronics products manufactured by Apple, Nintendo, and Samsung, among others, contending that they […]
Today the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision that Klarquist had obtained for clients Best Buy Co., Target Corporation, and Walmart, Inc. The PTAB had determined that all claims in a patent which had been asserted against Klarquist’s clients were unpatentable as obvious. The patent related to a system for purchasing in retail stores products […]
Yesterday, the Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior IPR win at the PTAB for client Microsoft. In the underlying IPR, the PTAB agreed with Microsoft that the challenged claims, directed to a handheld device to wirelessly operate a camera of a mobile device, were unpatentable as obvious, and rejected an effort by the patent owner to […]
Klarquist represented the prevailing party, Nautilus, in the only U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting Section 112 of the Patent Act. Today, Klarquist filed an Amici brief on behalf of two high technology industry associations in a second Supreme Court case involving Section 112, which likely will be argued this spring, Amgen v. Sanofi, No. 21-757. […]
Klarquist helped client Amazon.com win a mandamus order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit directing the district court to sever and transfer the case filed by Flygrip Inc. against Amazon.com from the Western District of Texas (Waco) to the District of Colorado. Plaintiff Flygrip sued Amazon.com in Waco, alleging patent infringement […]
Today, the Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior CBM win at the PTAB for client American Express Company. There, the PTAB found all challenged claims of the asserted patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. §101, because the claims are directed to the abstract idea of transferring and exchanging reward points data while using only generic, conventional technology. […]
Klarquist scored a win at the Federal Circuit for client Microsoft, obtaining vacatur and remand of a PTAB final written decision in an IPR against adversary Uniloc. In that IPR, the PTAB had upheld all challenged claims upon finding that the cited prior art grounds failed to satisfy a comparison step recited in all challenged […]
Klarquist’s post-grant team notched wins on both sides of the v. for client SAP, against its rival Teradata. Defending a patent owned by SAP, Klarquist secured a final written decision upholding all challenged claims of USP 7,617,179. Klarquist had previously secured victories on three other SAP patents, when the Board denied institution of IPRs sought […]
On September 2, 2020, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals summarily affirmed two decisions Klarquist obtained on behalf of its clients SAP America, Inc. (“SAP”) and HP Inc., against Big Baboon, Inc. The Federal Circuit affirmed the day after hearing oral arguments from Klarquist attorneys. The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by Judge Haywood S. […]