On October 17, in a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment granted by Judge Maxine M. Chesney, USDC, Northern District of California, invalidating under Section 101 claims of three Synopsys, Inc. patents. The claims are directed to “the abstract idea of: translating a functional description of a logic circuit into a hardware component […]
On October 11, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding Synopsys Inc. memory synthesis patent claims obvious. Synopsys had alleged infringement of the claims by Mentor Graphics Corporation, as part of a lawsuit filed late 2012 in N.D. Cal. The Court stayed that part of the case when the PTAB granted Mentor’s petition for […]
In a significant Lanham Act false advertising verdict, a jury in the Central District of California found CYME (a division of Eaton Corporation, represented by Jones Day) liable for making false claims about the performance of ETAP’s software. The jury awarded Klarquist’s client, ETAP, $8.42 million in damages, and found that CYME willfully engaged in […]
On January 29, 2016, Klarquist obtained a permanent injunction for its client Capsugel in a case asserting two patents and false advertising claims relating to pullulan-based capsules. The team defended parallel PTAB challenges to the asserted patents. Judge Paul Papak granted a permanent injunction for patent owner Capsugel against all four defendants, including the manufacturer […]
On Friday, July 24, 2015, Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dismissed with prejudice nine lawsuits asserting seven related patents against multiple travel web-site providers. The dismissal was based on the successful challenge to selected claims of two of those seven patents, by the defendants in six of […]
On May 22, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,239,451 B1 of Metasearch Systems, LLC, unpatentable under Section 101 and Section 103 of the Patent Act. The decision concluded a Covered Business Method Review Proceeding (CBM2014-00050) filed and tried by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, on behalf of American Express […]
On April 10, 2015, two days after oral argument, the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed a summary judgment of invalidity to Klarquist client Bravo Media, LLC (a division of NBC Universal Media LLC) that U.S. Patent No. 6,585,516 (the ‘516 patent) was invalid under 35 USC § 101 for failing to claim patent-eligible subject matter. The […]
On March 13, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,326,924 of Metasearch Systems, LLC unpatentable under Section 101 and Section 103 of the Patent Act. The decision concluded a Covered Business Method Review Proceeding (CBM2014-00001) filed and tried by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, on behalf of American Express Co., […]
On January 20, 2015, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (Hon. Maxine M. Chesney) granted summary judgment to Mentor Graphics Corporation, invalidating all asserted claims of three patents for claiming patent-ineligible subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Act. The order issued on a motion briefed and argued by […]
On December 30, 2014, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal with prejudice for lack of standing of four patent cases brought by Walker Digital, LLC, against Klarquist clients Amazon.com, Inc. and Zappos.com, Inc., Fish & Richardson client Expedia, Inc., and Potter Anderson client Barnes & Noble, Inc. Delaware District Court Judge Sue […]