Hockeyline, Inc. v. Stats LLC
Case Number: 2:13-cv-01446-CM
Judge McMahon, following the parties’ joint motion after the PTAB instituted IPR Case No. IPR2014-00510 for the patent-in-suit, U.S. Patent No....more
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Ablexis LLC -
Case Number: 1:14-v-01651-KBF -
Teaser: Judge Forrest: “Regeneron's position that each claim in its ‘018 Patent has a single limitation is, at the very least,...more
JobDiva, Inc. v. Monster Worldwide, Inc.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-08229-KBF -
On October 3, 2014, Judge Forrest construed terms of four JobDiva patents and one Monster patent. The JobDiva patents are...more
Rates Technology Inc. v. Broadvox Holding Company, LLC, et al.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-00152-SAS -
In June 2014, Judge Scheindlin dismissed Rates’s patent infringement against Broadvox, as Rates’s counsel,...more
Keystone Global LLC v. Auto Essentials Inc., et al.
Case Number: 1:12-cv-09077-DLC-GWG -
Keystone alleged that Decor Essentials infringed two patents, U.S. Patents Nos. 7,866,715 (“Protective vehicle cover”) and...more
Touchtunes Music Corp. v. Rowe International Corp., Arachnid, Inc., et al.
October 21, 2014 -
Case Number: 1:07-cv-11450-RWS -
Judge Sweet, having previously found this case to be exceptional, awarded...more
Dr. Paula Small v. Implant Direct MFG. LLC d/b/a Implant Direct, LLC -
Case Number: 1:06-cv-00683-NRB -
In 2013, defendants won summary judgment on two dental implant patents. One patent was found invalid...more
Worldwide Home Products, Inc., v. Bed, Bath and Beyond, Inc., et al.
Case Number: 1:11-cv-03633-MHD -
Worldwide sued Bed, Bath and Beyond (BBB) for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7938300 (“Nestable...more
Hunter Douglas, Inc. v. Kohl’s Corporation, et al.
Case Number: 1:14-cv-01743 -
Plaintiff Hunter Douglas and defendant Welcome Industrial Corp. entered into a consent decree enjoining Welcome from infringing...more
523 IP LLC, v. CureMD.com -
Case Number: 1:11-cv-09697-KPF -
Judge Failla construed terms of U.S. Patent No. 7,702,523 (“Website messaging system”), and, as her construction at times differs significantly from...more
In anticipation of an upcoming Markman ruling, and after Monster sent a recent Federal Circuit decision to Judge Forrest, Job Diva sent the court a letter stating that Monster’s new case in fact supports Job Diva’s...more
In this dispute concerning U.S. Patent No. D618,132 (“Diamond jewellery (sic)”), Judge Preska denied declaratory judgment plaintiff’s request for summary judgment of patent invalidity and non-infringement, but granted the...more
Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) Rule 37 CFR § 42.6(a)(3) prohibits argument that incorporate “by reference from one document into another document.” Rule 42.6(a)(3) serves two functional purposes. First, it simplifies...more
CaDietGoal Innovations LLC v. Time, Inc.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-08381 -
Last month, in DietGoal Innovations LLC v. Bravo Media LLC, Case No. 1:13–cv-08391–PAE, we reported on Judge Engelmayer’s invalidation of...more
Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. et al.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-03777 -
Summary: JP Morgan Chase (“JPMC”), having lost a motion to stay this case pending resolution of IPRs and CBMs [LINK TO 19...more
Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. et al.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-03777 -
Summary: In litigation filed June 2013 with a trial anticipated in the summer of 2015, Judge Hellerstein denied JP Morgan...more
Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. et al.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-03777 -
Last month, we reported that the court concluded that documents relating to patent valuation “have little or no...more
Conair Corporation v. Jarden Corporation et al.
Case Number: 1:13-cv-06702 -
Jarden (maker of “Mr. Coffee” brand expresso [should “expresso” be “espresso” throughout?], cappuccino and latte machines) asked the...more
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. et al.
Case Number: 1:12-cv-08060 -
Patentee Endo asked the court to rule that the protective orders in the patent infringement cases it filed...more
Times Three Clothier, LLC v. Spanx, Inc. -
Case Number: 1:13-cv-02157 -
We had previously reported on Times Three’s two failures to produce satisfactory infringement contentions in its infringement case against...more
Runberg, Inc. d/b/a Zephyrs v. McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, et al. -
Case Number: 652543/2014 -
Runberg owns U.S. Patent No. 8,216,021 (“Engineered push up insert”), which claims a kidney-shaped push up insert...more
Defendant Ablexis requested that the court compel the production of documents associated with the prosecution of non-U.S. patent applications related to the patent-in-suit. The court said that a defendant’s statement that the...more
Following defendant Monster’s filing of a motion for summary judgment, the patentee provided declarations by two expert witnesses in opposition. Monster noticed depositions of these experts, but the patentee moved for a...more
Judge Forrest, in a four-patent case having 64 asserted claims, ordered the plaintiff to reduce its asserted claim count to 16 within 7 days following the court’s Markman decision, and she said she will require additional...more
U.S. Patent No. 6,645,948 (“Nutritional composition for the treatment of connective tissue”) claims a “nutritional composition for the treatment of connective tissue in mammals comprising: a therapeutically effective amount...more