On November 8th, 2012, Automated Facilities Management Corporation (AFMC), a Texas corporation, filed suit against Ventyx USA, Inc., a Georgia corporation with a principal place of business in Colorado, for the manufacture and sale of Ventyx’s “Ellipse” product, an asset management program which, according to the complaint, infringes […]
A summary of recent patent case filings in the Northern District of Georgia is below. Pedicure Business Sues Former Partner Over Foot Tub Design Patent On October 23, 2012, Salon Spa Supply LLC (“SSS”) of Norcross, Georgia, filed a Verified Complaint for Injunctive Relief and Damages against Touspa, […]
On October 3, 2012, Anvil International, LLC (“Anvil”) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Mueller Water Products, Inc. (“Mueller”) of Atlanta, Georgia, filed a complaint against Victaulic Company (“Victaulic”) of Easton, Pennsylvania, in the Northern District of Georgia seeking a declaration that the claims of Victaulic’s U.S. Patent No. […]
On October 3, 2012, Park Industries, Inc. (“Park Industries”) of St. Cloud, Minnesota, filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia against Eurostone Machine, LLC (“Eurostone”) of Atlanta, Georgia, alleging that certain corner saws imported and sold by Eurostone in the United States that are made overseas […]
In a July 23 entry, we summarized the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling upholding a “pay for delay” agreement between pharmaceutical companies to settle patent litigation.[1] That agreement had been attacked by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) as violating antitrust laws. We characterized conflicting approaches between federal appellate courts on how […]
Patent cases have been filed in fairly close succession to one another in the Atlanta Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Each complaint contains allegations of willful patent infringement. UPS Sued Over Patent Relating to Method for Providing Notification of Express Mail […]
(Updated September 13) The Northern District of Georgia docket has seen a flurry of intellectual property-related activity in the last two weeks. Below is a summary of recent filings: Vehicle Tracking Patent Suits On September 6, 2012, Telematics Corporation (“Telematics”) filed a complaint against CarrierWeb, LLC (“CarrierWeb”) of Smyrna, […]
Hitachi, Ltd., which recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit over power tools (see our August 7, 2012 post here), has found its subsidiary, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (“Hitachi”), on the receiving end of a new patent infringement suit over its “Hitachi Compute Systems.” On August 28, 2012, Acceleron, […]
It’s about the spouts. A patent lawsuit over gutter downspout extensions pits companies based in Alpharetta, GA and Norcross, GA against one another. Invisaflow, LLC (“Invisaflow”), based in Alpharetta, filed a patent infringement case against Euramax International, Inc. and Euramax Holdings, Inc. (collectively “Euramax”), based in Norcross, in the U.S. District Court […]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is but the latest litigation forum chosen by a patentee with a history of filing infringement lawsuits against other organizations in other courts. On August 17, 2012, Yonkers, New York-based Joao Bock Transactional Systems, LLC (“JBTS”) filed three lawsuits […]
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