On April 9, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania’s decision to invalidate patent claims asserted by Noah Systems, Inc. (“Noah”) against Intuit, Inc. (“Intuit”), because the claims were indefinite. At the center of this case was U.S. Patent No. 5,875,435 [...]
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An Algorithm for Every Function
By Daniel on July 25, 2012 in Infringement, Litigation, Means Plus Function, Patent Infringement, Patent Litigation, Patent Validity, Software Patents
Multimedia Time Warping Patents Net TiVo $304 Million in Damage Awards
On September 4th, TiVo won an additional $200 million in damages for several of the patents that cover time warp recording of audio-video displays. The patents at suit were: US-6233389, US-7529465 and US-7493015. The damages were awarded by a federal judge in Marshall, Texas against Dish Network. TiVo earlier won damages of $104 million against [...]
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