PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASES
Marshall Division
April 4
Plaintiff DataTern is a Texas corporation.
The defendants are Abbott Laboratories, Comcast Corp., General Dynamics Corp., General Mills Inc., Harley-Davidson Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Morgan Stanley, Pepsico Inc., Pfizer Inc. and URS Corp.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,937,402 issued Aug. 10, 1999, for System for Enabling Access to a Relational Database from an Object Oriented Program.
DataTern is asking the Court for an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, cost, expenses, interest and attorney's fees.
The plaintiff is represented by David P. Henry, Jason A. Holt and Matthew M. Hill of Stevens, Love, Hill & Holt in Longview; and Timothy J. Haller of Niro, Haller & Niro in Chicago, Ill.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge T. John Ward is assigned to the case.
Case No. 2:11-cv-00203
Tyler Division
April 7
Mosaid is a Canadian corporation with a place of business in Plano.
The defendants are Freescale Semiconductor, Interphase Corp. and NVIDIA Corp.
The defendants are accused of infringing on:
The plaintiff is asking the Court for an injunction preventing further infringement and for an award of damages, enhanced damages, attorney's fees and court costs.
Mosaid Technologies is represented by David M. Schlitz of Baker Botts in Washington D.C.; Kurt M. Pankratz, Chad C. Walters and Matthew D. Colagrosso of Baker Botts in Dallas; and S. Calvin Capshaw of Capshaw DeRieux in Gladewater.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.
Case No. 6:11-cv-00173
April 8
Texas OCR is a limited liability company.
The defendants are Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Nuance Communications Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,363,179 issued March 26, 2002, for Methodology for Displaying Search Results Using Character Recognition.
The plaintiff is asking the Court to issue an injunction preventing further infringement and for an award of damages, costs, expenses, interest and attorney's fees.
Texas OCR is represented by Sean A. Luner and Richard E. Lyon of Dovel & Luner in Santa Monica, Calif., and Elizabeth L. DeRieux and Calvin Capshaw of Capshaw DeRieux in Gladewater.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.
Case No. 6:11-cv-00175
FALSE PATENT MARKING CASES
Marshall Division
April 8
Plaintiff's Attorney: Scott E. Stevens, Gregory P. Love and Kyle J. Nelson; Stevens Love, Longview
Judge: T. John Ward
Patents In Suit: U.S. Patent No. 4,980,517 issued Dec. 9, 1986, for Multi-strand conductor cable having its strands sized according to the golden section and U.S. Patent No. 4,628,151 issued Dec. 25, 1990, for Multi-strand electrical cable
Patent Expiration Date: '517 patent expired Dec. 30, 2005 and '151 patent expired Sept. 25, 2009
Defendant's Falsely Marked Product: Golden Section Stranding and Constant Q Stranding technologies
Case No. 2:11-cv-00211