Recent patent infringement cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas

Marshall Division 

Jan. 7

• Personal Audio v. Togi Entertainment Inc. Case No. 2:13-cv-00013

• Personal Audio v. Ace Broadcasting Network Case No. 2:13-cv-00014

• Personal Audio v. Howstuffworks.com Case No. 2:13-cv-000015

Personal Audio is a Texas limited liability company.

The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 8,112,504 B2 issued on Feb. 7, 2012, for System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence.

Personal Audio is asking the court to issue a permanent injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, interest, costs and disbursements and attorney fees.

The plaintiff is represented by Papool S. Chaudhari of Reyes Browne Reilley in Dallas and Jeremy S. Pitcock of Pitcock Law Group in New York, N.Y..

A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the cases.

 

Jan. 9

• Patent Group v. SkyMall Inc.  Case No. 2:13-cv-00019

• Patent Group v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Case No. 2:13-cv-00020

Patent Group is a limited liability company with its principal place of business in Tyler.

The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,603,490 B1 issued Aug. 5, 2003, for Web Site Screen Rotation.

The plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, costs, expenses, interest, attorney’s fees and enhanced damages.

Patent Group is represented by John F. Walker, Reid WM. Martin and Marisa Schouten of Martin Walker P.C. in Tyler and Stafford Davis of The Stafford Davis Firm in Tyler.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the cases.

 

Jan. 14

• Lodsys v. Hewlett Packard Co. Case No. 2:13-cv-00024

• Lodsys v. Lexmark International Inc. Case No. 2:13-cv-00025

• Lodsys v. GMCI Internet Operations Inc. et al Case No. 2:13-cv-00026

• Lodsys v. HSN Inc. Case No. 2:13-cv-00027

Lodsys is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Marshall.

The defendants are accused of willful infringement.

The patents at issue include U.S. Patent 7,620,565 issued Nov. 17, 2009, for Customer-Based Product Design Module and U.S. Patent No. 7,222,078 issued May 22, 2007, for Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network.

Lodsys is asking the court to issue an injunction preventing the defendants from further acts of infringement and for an award of damages, treble damages, attorney’s fees and court costs.

The plaintiff is represented by William E. Davis III of the Davis Law Firm in Longview and Michael A. Goldfarb and Christopher M. Huck of Kelley, Donion, Gill, Huck & Goldfarb in Seattle, Wash.

A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the cases.

 

Jan. 18

• Secure Axcess v. Nintendo of America Inc. et al Case No. 2:13-cv-00032

Secure Axcess is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Plano.

The defendants are Nintendo of America Inc., Micro Electronics Inc., Hastings Entertainment Inc., Game Stop Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Texas LLC, Best Buy Stores L.P., Bestbuy.com LLC, K Mart Corp., Target Corporation, Toys “R” Us-Delaware Inc. and Amazon.com LLC.

The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,522,309 issued Feb. 18, 2003, for Multiscreen Personal Computer Display Method And Apparatus.

Secure Axcess is asking the court to issue an injunction preventing further acts of infringement and for an award of damages, reasonably royalty, attorney’s fees, interest and court costs.

The plaintiff is represented by James E. Davis, Kelly J. Kubasta, Casey L. Griffith, and Todd Basile of Klemchuck Kubasta LLP.

A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the case.

 

Tyler Division

Jan. 8

• Blue Spike v. Accu-Time Systems Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00037

• Blue Spike v. Animetrics Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00038

• Blue Spike v. Anviz Global Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00039

• Blue Spike v. AOptiz Technologies Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00040

Jan. 9

• Blue Spike v. Asure Software Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00044

• Blue Spike v. Biometrika, s.r.l. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00045

Jan. 10

• Blue Spike v. Daon Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00047

Jan. 11

• Blue Spike v. Dermalog Identification Systems GmbH et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00053

• Blue Spike v. Futronic Technology Co. Ltd. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00054

• Blue Spike v. Iritech Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00055

• Blue Spike v. Nitgen Co. Ltd. Case No. 6:13-cv-00056

• Blue Spike v. Suprema Inc. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00057

• Blue Spike v. Sonda Technologies Ltd. Case No. 6:13-cv-00058

Blue Spike is a Texas limited liability company and has its headquarters and principal place of business in Tyler.

The defendants are accused of infringing on:

• U.S. Patent No. 7,346,472 issued March 18, 2008, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals;

• U.S. Patent No. 7,660,700 issued Feb. 9, 2010, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals;

• U.S. Patent No. 7,949,494 issued May 24, 2011, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals; and

• U.S. Patent No. 8,214,175 issued July 3, 2012, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals.

The plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, treble damages, interest and attorney’s fees.

Blue Spike is represented by Eric M. Albritton, Stephen E. Edwards and Michael A. Benefield of Albritton Law Firm in Longview; and Randall T. Garteiser, Christopher A. Honea and Christopher S. Johns of Garteiser Honea P.C. in San Rafael, Calif.

A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the cases.

 

Jan. 10

• Adaptix Inc. v. Ericsson Inc. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00049

• Adaptix Inc. v. Ericsson Inc. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00050

Adaptix is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Carrollton, Texas.

The defendants are Ericsson Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, AT&T Inc., AT&T Mobility LLC and MetroPCS Communications Inc.

The defendant is accused of infringing on:

• U.S. Patent No. 7,146,172 issued for Multi-Carrier Communications with Adaptive Cluster Configuration and Switching;

• U.S. Patent No. 7,573,851 issued for Method and System for Switching Antenna and Channel Assignments in Broadband Wireless Networks;

• U.S. Patent No. 6,904,283 issued for Multi-Carrier Communications with Group-Based Subcarrier Allocations;

• U.S. Patent No. 7,072,315 issued for Medium Access Control for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple-Access (OFDMA) Cellular Networks; and

• U.S. Patent No. 6,870,808 issued for Channel Allocation in Broadband Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access Space Division Multiple-Access Networks.

Adaptix is asking the court for an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages and interest.

The plaintiff is represented by Paul J. Hayes and Dean G. Bostock of Hayes, Bostock & Cronin in Andover, Mass.; and T. John Ward Jr. and J. Wesley Hill of Ward & Smith Law Firm in Longview. A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the cases.

 

Jan. 14

• Blue Spike v. SpeechPro Inc. et al Case No. 6:13-cv-00059

• Blue Spike v. CBS Interactive Inc. Case No. 6:13-cv-00060

Blue Spike is a Texas limited liability company and has its headquarters and principal place of business in Tyler.

The defendants are accused of infringing on:

U.S. Patent No. 7,346,472 issued March 18, 2008, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals;

U.S. Patent No. 7,660,700 issued Feb. 9, 2010, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals;

U.S. Patent No. 7,949,494 issued May 24, 2011, for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals; and

U.S. Patent No. 8,214,175 issued July 3, 2012 for Method and Device for Monitoring and Analyzing Signals.

The plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction to prevent further infringement and for an award of damages, treble damages, interest and attorney’s fees.

Blue Spike is represented by Eric M. Albritton, Stephen E. Edwards and Michael A. Benefield of Albritton Law Firm in Longview; and Randall T. Garteiser, Christopher A. Honea and Christopher S. Johns of Garteiser Honea P.C. in San Rafael, Calif.

A jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis is assigned to the cases.

 

Lufkin Division

Jan. 15

• Swipe Innovations v. Bluebird USA Inc. et al Case No. 9:13-cv-00012

• Swipe Innovations v. Cryptera A/S et al Case No. 9:13-cv-00013

• Swipe Innovations v. International Technologies & Systems Corp. Case No. 9:13-cv-00014

Jan. 16

• Swipe Innovations v. Intuit Payment Solutions et al Case No. 9:13-cv-00015

• Swipe Innovations v. Pax Technology Inc. et al Case No. 9:13-cv-00016

Swipe is a limited liability company formed with a principal place of business in Houston.

The defendants are accused of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,351,296 issued Sept. 27, 1994, for Financial Transmission System.

Swipe is asking the court for an injunction and for an award of damages, costs, interest and attorney’s fees.

The plaintiff is represented by Larry D. Thompson Jr., Matthew J. Antonelli, and Zachariah S. Harrington of Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson in Houston; and Stafford Davis of The Stafford Davis Firm in Tyler.

Jury trial is requested.

U.S. District Judge Ron Clark is assigned to the cases.