Klarquist successfully obtained summary judgment of patent invalidity as to one of Plaintiff’s patents on preemptive multithreading software. The invalidity ruling also eliminated Plaintiff’s claimed patent priority date on a second asserted patent—resulting in the Patent Office granting a reexamination request regarding the validity of the second patent. All claims of the second patent were […]
Klarquist attorneys retained at the last minute successfully defended against contempt allegations at an evidentiary hearing on an order to show cause, convincing the Court to vacate its default judgment and injunction entered against Renaissance Malibu Foundation and dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction. The case was filed in the District of Oregon […]
On May 13, 2010, the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte of the Northern District of California granted IGT’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of Aristrocrat’s Patent Nos. 7,056,215 and 7,108,603, which relate to slot machine jackpot methods. The District Court ruled that IGT does not infringe the patents-in-suit because no single actor performs all steps […]
Klarquist’s client Digimarc Corporation, of Beaverton Oregon, has settled patent infringement litigation in Delaware with Arbitron Inc. The parties entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement for a $4.5 million payment to Digimarc. Digimarc’s patented portfolio includes innovations in areas such as audience measurement, mobile music identification, visual search, copyright filtering, royalty audits, and brand protection. Digimarc […]
Klarquist attorneys obtained summary judgment for our client, Columbia River Knife and Tool (CRKT) on claims of patent infringement raised by Taylor Brands, LLC related to assisted opening knives. The case was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee on December 12, 2008. On April 10, 2009, before the initial case scheduling conference and any […]
Klarquist attorneys obtained a complete summary judgment victory for our client MEI, LLC on its copyright infringement, DMCA, and Lanham Act claims. Defendants Integral Applied Technology, Inc. and Gustavo Martinez were found liable for unauthorized copying and modification of MEI’s IDX software. The case was filed in the District of Oregon in February 2008. Chief […]
Klarquist’s client Microsoft Corporation prevailed last week at the start of a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona for alleged infringement of six patents asserted by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT). Based on a series of pre-trial rulings in Microsoft’s favor, the parties stipulated that “all claims have been extinguished […]
A long running battle between Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) and Microsoft over liability and damages is scheduled for a second trial beginning September 1, 2009. On June 5, 2009, Judge Robert C. Jones, presiding in the District of Arizona by designation, granted a number of partial summary judgment motions filed by Klarquist. Significantly, the Court […]
Klarquist attorneys helped our client Microsoft Corporation win summary judgment in a patent litigation in the Western District of Washington involving the deployment and restoration of certain Microsoft Windows® operating systems. On February 20, 2008, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled as a matter of law that the asserted patent is invalid over the […]
Klarquist attorneys helped our client Microsoft Corporation prevail on summary judgment of patent invalidity in a January 3, 2008, ruling by Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The case against Microsoft was filed in the District of Utah in February 2006 by International Automated Systems, Inc. (IAS). IAS […]