Marshall Division
June 12
Elia Data of Texas is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Allen.
The defendant is accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 7,113,996 issued Sept. 26, 2006, for Method and system for secured transport and storage of data on a network.
Elia Data is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, enhanced damages, court costs, interest and attorney's fees.
The plaintiff is represented by Frisco attorney Ronald W. Burns. A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider is assigned to the case.
Case No. 2:12-cv-00320
Ganas is a Texas limited liability company with a principal place of business in Allen.
The defendants are Dell Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Alcoa Inc., Ansys Inc., Automatic Data Processing Inc., Avaya Inc., Burroughs Payment Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., F5 Networks Inc., FedEx Corp., InterSystems Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., Nokia Inc., Office Depot Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., TransUnion Corp., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Vocus Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 7,136,913 issued Nov. 14, 2006, for Object oriented communication among platform independent systems across a firewall over the internet using HTTP-SOAP; U.S. Patent No. 7,007,094 issued Feb. 28, 2006, for Object oriented communications system over the internet; and U.S. Patent No. 7,325,053 issued Jan. 29, 2008, for Object oriented communication among platform independent systems across a firewall over networks using SOAP.
Ganas is asking the court for an injunction and for an award of damages, enhanced damages, costs, interest and attorney's fees.
Zachariah S. Harrington, Matthew J. Antonelli and Larry D. Thompson Jr. of Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson in Houston are representing the plaintiff.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider is assigned to the case.
Case No. 2:12-cv-00324
Cardsoft is a limited liability corporation with a principal place of business in Mountain View, Calif.
The defendants are The Gores Group and Equinox Payments.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,934,945 issued Aug. 23, 2005, for Method and Apparatus for Controlling Communications and U.S. Patent No. 7,302,683 issued Nov. 27, 2007, for Method and Apparatus for Controlling Communications.
Cardsoft is asking the court for an award of damages, enhanced damages, interest, attorney's fees and court costs.
The plaintiff is represented by William E. Davis III of The Davis Firm PC in Longview and Donald R. McPhail, Barry Golob and Kerry McTigue of Cozen O'Connor in Washington, D.C.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the case.
Case No. 2:12-cv-00325
June 13
DietGoal Innovations is a Texas Limited Liability Company based in Austin, Texas.
The defendants are Allreceipes.com Inc., Bravo Media, CalorieKing Wellness Solutions Inc., ConAgra Foods Inc., Scripps Network d/b/a Food.com, General Mills Sales Inc., Meredith Corp., Nestle USA Inc., Nutrisystem Inc., SparkPeople Inc., Taco Mayo Franchise Systems Inc., Time Inc., Tyson Foods Inc., WebMD and Whataburger Restaurants.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,585,516 issued July 1, 2003, for Method and System for Computerized Visual Behavior Analysis, Training, and Planning.
The plaintiff is asking the court for an award of damages, interest, attorney's fees, and court costs. Jury trials are requested.
Christopher M. Joe, Eric W. Buether, Brian A. Carpenter, Mark D. Perantie, Niky Bukovcan and Monica Tavakoli of Buether Joe & Carpenter in Dallas are representing DietGoal Innovations.
June 14
NovelPoint Security is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Allen.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,434,562 issued for Method for Limiting Computer Access to Peripheral Devices and U.S. Patent No. 6,212,635 issued for Network Security System Allowing Access and Modification to a Security Subsystem After Initial Installation When a Master Token is in Place.
The plaintiff is asking the court to enjoin the defendants from further infringement and for an award of damages, enhanced damages, attorney's fees, interest and court costs.
NovelPoint Security is represented by Craig Tadlock and Keith Smiley of Tadlock Law Firm in Irving.
A jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the case.
Case No. 2:12-cv-00344
T-Rex is a limited liability company with its principal place of business in Stocksund, Sweden.
The defendants are CBS Corp., Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings and Lamar Advertising Co.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. RE39,470 issued Jan. 16, 2007, for Digital Information System.
T-Rex is asking the Court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, interest, attorney's fees, and court costs.
Melissa R. Smith of Gillam & Smith in Marshall and Jacqueline Knapp Burt and Dara T. Jeffries of Heninger Garrison Davis in Atlanta, Ga., are representing T-Rex Property AB.
Jury trials are requested.
Case Nos. 2:12-cv-00346; 2:12-cv-00347; 2:12-cv-00348
Tyler Division
June 12
Uniloc USA Inc. is a Texas corporation having a principal place of business in Irvine, Calif. Uniloc Singapore Private Limited is a Singapore corporation.
The defendants are Rackspace Hosting Inc. and Rackspace US Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,892,697 issued for Method and Apparatus for Handling Overflow and Underflow in Processing Floating-Point Numbers.
Uniloc is asking the court to issue an injunction preventing the defendants from further infringement and for an award of damages, costs, expenses, attorney's fees and interest.
Barry J. Bumgardner and Steven W. Hartsell of Nelson Bumgardner Castro P.C. in Fort Worth, James L. Etheridge of Etheridge Law Group in Southlake and T. John Ward Jr. and J. Wesley Hill of Ward & Smith Law Firm in Longview are representing the plaintiff.
Jury trial is requested.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.
Case No. 6:12-cv-00375