The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) struck down all claims of a patent related to how web playlists are displayed, ruling that all 33 claims are unpatentable as obvious over prior art web browser technology. Issuing its decision on August 23, the PTAB also denied the patent owner’s motion to amend the claims. Klarquist’s […]
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of Klarquist clients SunModo and EcoFasten Solar. Previously, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado ruled that the asserted claims of the patents-in-suit were invalid because they were not entitled to priority to […]
Today, more than a billion people around the world trust American “cloud” service providers such as Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to safeguard their private emails and other data in hundreds of high-security datacenters. This new paradigm combines the highest data security with nearly instantaneous data access from anywhere in the world. That worldwide access has […]
Klarquist obtained a permanent injunction and $3.8 million at the U.S. District Court of Oregon for clients OmniGen Research and parent company Prince Agri Products in a suit for trade secret theft and other claims against a former employee and his spouse. After their earlier success on a motion for terminating sanctions due to evidence […]
Various companies and trade associations joined today as Amici in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the “inter partes review” procedure for reexamining patents and canceling ones that were issued in error, in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, No. 16-712 . The software company SAP America, Inc. was joined […]
Operation Technology, Inc. (ETAP) won partial summary judgment invalidating all 138 asserted patent claims in four patents, in a lawsuit filed by Power Analytics Corp. The patents are in the field of modeling electrical systems. ETAP, founded in 1986 by Dr. Farrokh Shokooh, is a technology leader in modeling, design, analysis, optimization, monitoring, control, and […]
Klarquist scored a key victory for client Nautilus, Inc., fending off four IPR petitions filed by rival exercise equipment company Icon Fitness. The denied petitions attempted to challenge four Nautilus patents relating to elliptical machines. Nautilus is asserting those patents against Icon in district court litigation, alleging infringement by the NordicTrack FreeStride Trainers. Klarquist also […]
Microsoft prevailed as the petitioner over Smart Skins in an inter partes review decision involving a mobile device cover with attached peripherals. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled all six claims under review unpatentable as obvious. The Board held that the interrelated teachings of two prior art patents, made obvious the challenged patent claims. […]
Oregon animal nutrition company OmniGen Research and parent company Prince Agri Products prevailed on a motion for terminating sanctions due to the destruction of evidence in a suit against a former employee accused of stealing trade secrets. Klarquist argued that scientist Yongqiang Wang had misappropriated confidential information by trying to sell knock-offs of OmniGen’s feed […]
SunModo Corporation prevailed on summary judgment in a patent infringement suit brought by D Three Enterprises. D Three had alleged infringement of three patents relating to roof mount assemblies that can be used for solar panels. Klarquist argued invalidity of all of the 30+ asserted claims. On March 15, Judge Craig B. Shaffer ruled that […]