Klarquist attorneys helped our client Microsoft Corporation successfully prevail on summary judgment of non-infringement two years ago in the District of Oregon. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court’s ruling in a decision published May 29, 2007. The original case was filed in the District of Oregon in February 2004 […]
On March 15, 2007, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP successfully won cancellation of a competitor’s mark in an appeal filed with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). A copy of the TTAB’s decision can be found here. Klarquist’s client, Jansen Enterprises, Inc., filed a petition with the TTAB to cancel the registration owned by Israel Rind […]
Klarquist Sparkman, LLP recorded a victory for its client Freightliner LLC by defeating a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Dr. Frank T. Buckley, Jr. Dr. Buckley has further agreed to surrender his right to appeal. Dr. Buckley claimed the invention of a drag-reducing fairing for highway use on heavy duty trucks (U.S. Patent […]
On May 22, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the Honorable Manuel L. Real, presiding, awarded Microsoft $8,612,000 in attorneys’ fees against Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) of Tucson, Arizona. After a trial in August 2005, the Court found that three of six patents asserted by RCT were “unenforceable due to the […]
Klarquist Sparkman, LLP scored another victory for its client Microsoft Corporation. On November 23, 2005, the District of Arizona, the Honorable Manuel L. Real, presiding, ruled that three of the six patents asserted by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) are unenforceable due to inequitable conduct by the patent applicants. The Court had previously ruled in April […]
Klarquist has helped its longstanding client Microsoft Corporation score another victory on appeal in a patent infringement lawsuit relating to the downloading and streaming of music and video over the Internet. The lawsuit began in 2001, when Network Commerce, Inc., filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, accusing Microsoft of infringing United […]
On August 2, 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Klarquist’s client CollegeNET, Inc., reinstating a jury verdict that CollegeNET’s competitor, ApplyYourself, Inc., infringed CollegeNET’s U.S. Patent No. 6,460,042. The court also affirmed the verdict of infringement of CollegeNET’s U.S. Patent No. 6,345,278. CollegeNET prevailed in a September […]
Portland, OR –Intellectual property law firm Klarquist Sparkman, LLP announced that it has recently helped its client Microsoft Corporation win two patent infringement lawsuits brought against it. In one case, United States District Judge Ann Aiken of the District of Oregon granted summary judgment on May 6, 2005, that Microsoft’s Sidewinder joysticks and game controllers […]
In a verdict delivered on May 6, 2005, after a three-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, a jury awarded Translogic Technology, Inc., $86.5 million in damages for infringement of its Transmission Gate Series Multiplexer patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,162,666) by Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan), Hitachi America, Ltd., and Renesas Technology […]