Marshall Division
Aug. 12
Renesas is a Japanese corporation and 511 Technologies is a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in Marshall.
Vizio is accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 7,199,432 issued April 3, 2007, for Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device; and U.S. Patent No. 6,531,400 issued March 11, 2003, for Process for Manufacturing Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to enjoin the defendants from further infringement and for an award of damages, attorney's fees, court costs and expenses.
The plaintiffs are represented by Kevin Kudlac of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston.
A jury trial is requested.
Case 2:11-cv-00356
Tyler Division
Aug. 6
Powerline is a limited liability company with its principal place of business in Plano.
The defendants are Sharp Corp., Sharp Electronics Corp.,Belkin International Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Technology Inc., NETGEAR Inc., D-Link Corp., D-Link Systems, Inc., ZyXEL Communications Corp., ZyXEL Communications Inc., Billion Electric Co. Ltd., BEC Technologies Inc., GigaFast E Ltd., TPLINK Technologies Co. Ltd., TP-LINK USA Corp., TRENDnet Inc., Monster Cable Products Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., Qualcomm Atheros Inc., Broadcom Corp., Gigle Networks Inc., SPiDCOM Technologies S.A., Sigma Designs Inc., CopperGate Communications Ltd., CopperGate Communications Inc., STMicroelectronics N.V., STMicroelectronics Inc., Arkados Group Inc., Arkados Inc., Kawasaki Microelectronics and Kawasaki Microelectronics America Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,471,190 issued on Nov. 28, 1995, for Method and Apparatus for Resource Allocation in a Communication Network System.
The plaintiff is asking the court for an award of damages, interest, treble damages, attorney's fees and court costs.
The plaintiffs are represented by Hao Ni of the Ni Law Firm in Dallas. A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.
Case No. 6:11-cv-00410; 6:11-cv-00411
Aug. 10
Stragent is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Longview. SeeSaw Foundation is a Texas non-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Longview.
The defendant is accused of infringing on:
The plaintiffs are asking for an award of damages, costs, expenses, and interest.
The plaintiffs are represented by Eric M. Albritton, Stephen E. Edwards and Debra Coleman of Albritton Law Firm in Longview and Barry J. Bumgardner and Jaime K. Oline of Nelson Bumgardner Castro PC in Fort Worth.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.
Case No. 6:11-cv-00421
Aug. 13
Marshall Packaging Co. is a limited liability company with its principal place of business in Marshall.
The defendants are CG Roxane, Jana North America Inc. and Topco Holdings Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,370,250 issued Dec. 6, 1994, and reissued on Nov. 9, 1999, as U.S. Patent No. RE 38,770 for Collapsible Container.
Marshall Packaging is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, court costs and attorney's fees.
The plaintiff is represented by Donald Puckett and Paul J. Skiermont of Skiermont Puckett in Dallas.
A jury trial is requested.
Case 6:11-cv-00427