Magistrate Judge Payne recommended granting defendant Samsung’s motion for summary judgment of patent ineligibility, which would hold all remaining asserted claims of Mullen’s location-sharing patents invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This content is restricted to subscribers
Judge Mazzant granted defendants Gateway Church and Robert Morris’s motions to dismiss, holding that Plaintiffs’ claims over the use and refund of tithe dollars were barred by the First Amendment’s ecclesiastical abstention doctrine.
A Marshall Division jury in Judge Robert W. Schroeder III’s court found that defendant Verizon Wireless infringed plaintiff Aspen Networks’ patent covering technology for switching cellphone calls between Wi-Fi and cellular networks. It found all six asserted claims infringed, none proven by clear and convincing evidence to be invalid, and awarded damages of $190 million. This content is restricted to subscribers
I want to congratulate my cocounsel Tex Quesada and Jody Rodenberg on their outstanding win for our client Steve Henson yesterday in federal court in Marshall. An Eastern District of Texas – Marshall Division jury in Magistrate Judge Roy Payne’s court returned a verdict for Mr. Henson in a case arising out of injuries he sustained in a trucking collision and awarded $1.4 million in damages.
Judge Barker granted Apple’s renewed motion to stay plaintiff MYW Semitech’s patent claims in this Delaware case after the USPTO instituted inter partes review on all three asserted patents. This content is restricted to subscribers
Judge Albright granted in part the defendants motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that the plaintiff could not use alleged patent infringement as a defense to antitrust injury or standing. This content is restricted to subscribers
Judge Albright largely granted plaintiff DynaCap’s request for additional venue-related discovery from Apple, ordering Apple to provide more information about its Austin-based employees, operations, documents, and 30(b)(6) testimony relating to the accused products. This content is restricted to subscribers
Judge Albright ordered NVIDIA to conduct a reasonable search and produce internal business-case, financial, and market-analysis documents related to the accused ray-tracing functionality within 14 days. This content is restricted to subscribers
Judge Payne denied defendant AT&T’s motion seeking to exclude the opinions of plaintiff Smart RF’s damages expert, David Kennedy, finding that the challenged issues largely went to the weight of the testimony rather than its admissibility. The Court held that Kennedy’s income-approach, cost-approach, hypothetical negotiation, and running-royalty opinions were sufficiently reliable under FRE 702 and could be tested through cross-examination at trial rather than excluded outright. This content is restricted to subscribers
Magistrate Judge Gilliland recommended granting in part and denying in part Zee Entertainment’s motion to dismiss, concluding that Interactive Content Engines had not properly served the India-based defendant through a separate U.S. company. This content is restricted to subscribers