Marshall Division
June 20
GellyFish Technology is a Texas limited liability company with a principal place of business in Marshall.
The defendants are Snaptracs Inc. and Qualcomm Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,067,018 issued May 23, 2000, for Lost Pet Notification System.
The plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction preventing the defendants from further infringement and for an award of damages, costs, expenses and interest.
A jury trial is requested.
GellyFish Technology is represented by William E. Davis III of The Davis Firm in Longview and Scott C. Harris of Law Office of Scott C. Harris in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Case No. 2:12-cv-00353
June 20
InNova Patent Licensing LLC is a limited liability company with a principal place of business in Longview.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,018,761 issued Jan. 25, 2000, for System for Adding to Electronic Mail Messages Information Obtained from Sources External to the Electronic Mail Transport Process.
The plaintiff is asking the court for an injunction and for an award of damages, interest and court costs.
Christopher D. Banys, Daniel W. Bedell, Carmen A. Aviles and Daniel M. Shafer of The Lanier Law Firm P.C. in Palo Alto, Calif.; and Wesley Hill of Ward & Smith Law Firm in Longview are represnting InNova Patent Licensing.
A jury trial is requested.
June 21
Kickapoo Run is a Florida limited liability company having a principal place of business in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
The defendants are accused of U.S. Patent No. 5,961,332 issued Oct. 5, 1999, for Apparatus for Processing Psychological Data and Method of Use Thereof.
Kickapoo Run is asking the court to issue an injunction and for an award of damages, court costs, interest, and attorney's fees.
Austin Hansley of Austin Hansley Law Firm in Dallas is representing the plaintiff.
A jury trial is requested.
Sherman Division
June 19
Maxim is a Delaware corporation with a place of business in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The defendants are accused of infringing on:
Maxim Integrated Products is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, costs, expenses, interest, treble damages and attorney's fees.
A jury trial is requested.
Andrew W. Spangler of Spangler Law P.C. in Longview; James C. Otteson, Philip Marsh and Michael Nguyen of Agility IP Law in Menlo Park, Calif.; and Michael North of North Weber & Baugh in Palo Alto, Calif., are representing Maxim.
U.S. District Judge Richard A. Schell is assigned to the case.
Case No. 4:12-cv-00369
Tyler Division
June 18
FutureVision is a Pennsylvania limited liability company, which is headquartered in Malvern, Penn.
The defendants are Time Warner Cable Inc., Time Warner Cable LLC, Cequel Communications LLC dba Suddenlink Communications, Comcast of Houston LLC, Comcast Cable Communications LLC and Charter Communications LLC.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,877,755, issued on March 2, 1999, for Interactive Broadband Multimedia System.
The plaintiff is asking the court for an award of damages, including an ongoing royalty for infringement and for an award of interest, court costs and attorney's fees.
Eric M. Albritton, Stephen E. Edwards and Michael A. Benefield of Albritton Law Firm in Longview; and Andrew G. DiNovo and Jay D. Ellwanger of DiNovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy LLP in Austin are representing FutureVision.
A jury trial is requested.
Case No. 6:12-cv-00386
June 19
MacroSolve is an Oklahoma corporation with a principal place of business in Tulsa, Okla.
The defendants are JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., LinkedIn Corp., JetBlue Airways Corp., Kayak Software Corp. and Cumulus Media Inc.
The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 7,822,816 issued for Oct. 26, 2010, for System and Method for Data Management.
The plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, interest, court costs and attorney's fees. A jury trial is requested.
Matthew J. Antonelli, Zachariah S. Harrington, Larry D. Thompson Jr. and Kris Y. Teng of Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson in Houston are representing the plaintiff.
U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case
June 21
Powerline Innovations is a limited liability company with a principal place of business in Plano.
The defendant is accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,471,190 issued Nov. 28, 1995, for Method and Apparatus for Resource Allocation in a Communication Network System.
The plaintiff is seeking an award of damages, treble damages, interest, attorney's fees, and court costs.
Powerline Innovations is represented by Hao Ni and Stevenson Moore of Ni Law Firm in Dallas. A jury trial is requested.
Case No. 6:12-cv-00396