On December 13, 2013, Bruder Healthcare Company (“Bruder”) of Alpharetta, Georgia filed a complaint against Walgreen Company (“Walgreens”), an Illinois corporation with offices located in Deerfield, Illinois, and BigWall Enterprises Incorporated (“BigWall”), a Texas corporation with offices located in Dallas, Texas. The complaint was filed in the United […]
On December 2, 2013, Judge Timothy C. Batten signed an order granting summary judgment to Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. (“IMM”) of Cincinnati, Ohio and denying relief to Pediatric Medical Devices, Inc. (“PMD”) of Atlanta, Georgia. This order comes after an August 8, 2011 complaint filed by PMD […]
On September 27, 2013 Ironburg Inventions, Ltd. (“Ironburg”) of Somerset, Great Britain, and Scuf Gaming International, LLC (“Scuf Gaming”) of Atlanta, Georgia, the company through which Ironburg conducts business in the United States, filed a complaint against Playrapid EURL (“Playrapid”) of Tarascon, France and its subsidiary corporation BURN […]
On August 26, 2013, YKK Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, and YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. of Marietta, Georgia (collectively, “YKK“), filed a complaint in the Middle District of Georgia against Velcro USA Inc. (“Velcro”) of Manchester, New Hampshire, alleging infringement of United States Patent No. 6,720,059 (“the ’059 Patent”), “Fastener […]
VitalStim, LLC (VitalStim), ESD, LLC (ESD), DJO, LLC ((DJO), and Empi, Inc. (Empi) filed suit on December 3, 2012, against eSwallow USA, LLC (eSwallow) asserting infringement of four patents: U.S. Patent 5,725,564 (the ‘564 Patent), U.S. Patent 5,987,359 (the ‘359 Patent), U.S. Patent 6,104,958 (the ‘958 Patent), and […]
On August 31, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an eagerly-anticipated decision regarding the doctrine of inducement to infringe a patent method claim. The appeal, decided en banc (by all the judges on the court), resolved two different cases involving closely similar issues […]
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