The Federal Circuit on March 6, 2020, affirmed Klarquist’s prior win in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, for client Mentor Graphics Corp. against the plaintiff E-System Design, Inc. The district court had held the asserted patent claims invalid for “indefiniteness” under the Supreme Court’s 2014 Nautilus decision (also argued by […]
Klarquist filed an Amicus Curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 19, on behalf of the High Tech Inventors Alliance (whose members include Adobe, Amazon.com, Cisco, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce), supporting Intel’s certiorari petition asking the Court to end a decades-long divide at the Federal Circuit over perhaps the most consequential […]
The Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior win in the district court for client LinkedIn in a decision dated November 12, 2019. The district court had held that claims of the asserted patent are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. §101, because the claims are directed to the abstract idea of facilitating a cross-marketing relationship and the claims […]
American Express Company prevailed over Signature Systems, LLC before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a covered business method review proceeding involving a reward point conversion and redemption server system. American Express argued that Signature Systems’ patent was not eligible for patenting because it claimed generic and conventional computer functionality to perform the abstract […]
In a decision dated October 11, 2019 by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in the Northern District of California, the Court ordered Big Baboon, Inc. to pay $189,675.70 in attorney fees and costs to Klarquist client SAP America, Inc. (“SAP”). Earlier in 2019, Judge Gilliam granted SAP summary judgment that the asserted patent asserted was […]
On August 22, 2019, Chief District Judge Michael W. Mosman, United States District Court for the District of Oregon, granted summary judgment declaring indefinite (and thus invalid) all remaining patent claims of two patents asserted against DexCom, Inc., by WaveForm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of AgaMatrix, Inc. (Salem, NH). The Court’s ruling ended WaveForm’s lawsuit […]
In a decision issued April 24, 2019 by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., Klarquist clients SAP America, Inc. and HP Inc. prevailed on summary judgment against a patent infringement suit brought by Big Baboon, Inc. The federal district court in Oakland agreed that the asserted claims of the Big Baboon patent were invalid because the […]
Operation Technology, Inc. (ETAP) achieved a summary affirmance at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today. The appeals court affirmed an opinion by the Honorable John A. Kronstadt, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, finding invalid all the patent claims asserted by Power Analytics Corp. against ETAP. The patents are […]
On December 17, 2018, the Hon. Amos L. Mazzant, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, ruled indefinite (and thus invalid) the patent claims asserted against Mentor Graphics Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) by E-System Design, Inc. (Savannah, GA). (See Decision). The Court noted: “Perhaps these attorney arguments presented by Plaintiff might have been sufficient […]
On Friday, Chief Judge Leonard Stark of the District of Delaware granted Klarquist’s motion, filed on behalf of LinkedIn Corp., to dismiss DiStefano Patent Trust III, LLC’s complaint alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,768,760. The ’760 patent is entitled “Reciprocal Linking Arrangement Between Web Pages.” The motion sought dismissal on the ground that the claims […]