On September 29, 2014, in reexamination proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) affirmed the cancellation of all patent claims asserted against Klarquist’s client Microsoft in a separate case brought by NetView Technologies, Inc. NetView had accused Microsoft’s Excel Services of infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,251,776 […]
Slep-Tone Entertainment sued Canton Phoenix (a Chinese restaurant and bar in Tigard, Oregon) for trademark infringement. Slep-Tone alleged that Canton Phoenix possessed unauthorized copies of karaoke tracks that were originally engineered and produced by Slep-Tone. Slep-Tone alleged that the public performance of these karaoke tracks in karaoke shows (in which Slep-Tone’s trademark was briefly displayed […]
On July 8, 2014, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment 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 ‘516 […]
On June 20, 2014, United States Circuit Judge William C. Bryson, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Texas, granted summary judgment of non-infringement to end cases filed by TQP Development, LLC against Klarquist clients Intuit, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yelp. On July 23, 2014, Judge Bryson denied TQP’s motion for reconsideration and entered orders […]
In a unanimous decision, Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 13-369 (June 2, 2014), the United States Supreme Court rejected the Federal Circuit’s “insolubly ambiguous” and “amenable to construction” test for enforcing the Patent Act’s requirement that patent claims particularly point out and distinctly claim the invention. Nautilus is represented by Klarquist attorneys James E. […]
On January 10, 2014, the Supreme Court granted our client Nautilus’ petition for a writ of certiorari to address the Federal Circuit’s standard for determining whether patent claims are sufficiently definite under the statutory requirement of particular and distinct patent claiming. In 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Honorable […]
Klarquist helps Amazon.com and Zappos.com have two cases thrown out of a Delaware federal court because Plaintiff, Walker Digital, lacked standing to assert the patents-in-suit. Opinion linked below. Judge Sue L. Robinson Memorandum Opinion
On August 16, 2012, the Honorable Sue L. Robinson of the District of Delaware granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Klarquist on behalf of its client that U.S. Patent No. 8,019,060, which relates generally to a method and system for processing transaction information received from mobile devices, was invalid under 35 U.S.C. § […]
In 2011 Michael Blake published a YouTube video titled “What Pi Sounds Like” in celebration of Pi day (March 14th). On Pi day 2011, NPR ran a radio story featuring Blake’s “What Pi Sounds Like.” The YouTube video went viral, garnering over 750,000 views. Less than a month later, Blake was sued in the District […]
Klarquist’s client Associated Master Inspectors, LLC, dba AMI, prevailed this week in a two-day trial in the Oregon Circuit Court for the County of Yamhill in McMinnville, Oregon on its state and federal trademark infringement claims against another company using “AMI” in a related service area. AMI was formed in 2000 and since then has […]