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07/25/06
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DirecTV plans to contest a $78.9 million jury verdict that found that the direct-broadcast satellite provider infringed on a patent held by Finisar. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Finisar -- which provides fiber-optic systems for high-speed-data networks -- was awarded the back damages from DirecTV last Friday. After a two-week trial in Federal District Court, a Beaumont, Texas, jury found that DirecTV and its affiliated companies directly and willfully infringed on Finisar's information-transmission patent and awarded the sizable verdict to the company. "We believe the jury's verdict is wrong and represents a distortion of patent-infringement law," DirecTV said in a prepared statement "We are confident the facts and law support our position, and we will contest this decision through post-trial motions or on appealThe jury's award was substantially less than the damages claimed by Finisar, and we believe the evidence will ultimately show there was no infringement." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:12:02 am into the following categories: In The News07/25/06
A company that provides cellular phone billing services on Friday reached an $87 million settlement of a patent infringement case that had threatened to send it into bankruptcy. The settlement is far less than the $128 million a jury had ordered Boston Communications Group Inc. and its co-defendants to pay Freedom Wireless Inc., a small, privately held firm that had sued over patents. The Bedford-based company said in a joint announcement with Freedom Wireless that they had reached a definitive settlement and a related agreement under which BCGI will pay $12.6 million in royalties to license technology used for prepaid cellular phone billing plans. The $12.6 million is part of BCGI's total $55.3 million obligation to settle all outstanding claims from Phoenix-based Freedom, a tiny, privately held company that sought patent protection for its technologies in 1994. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:11:02 am into the following categories: In The News07/25/06
Roche Diagnostics today announced that a district judge in New York has ruled in favor of Roche Diagnostics on important aspects of patent infringement allegations brought by Enzo Biochem. The Court adopted virtually all of the interpretations proposed by Roche Diagnostics and its co-parties relating to seven Enzo patents covered by the order. Judge Sprizzo's ruling followed a week long hearing in July 2005 and extensive legal briefs by the parties. "This order will allow us to request a further ruling from the Court, declaring that Roche does not infringe on this patent," said Melinda Griffith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Roche Molecular Diagnostics, a business unit of Roche Diagnostics. "We look forward to the successful conclusion of this litigation." The litigation, first filed in 2002, concerns products and techniques for detecting genetic information in biological samples, such as blood. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:05:25 am into the following categories: In The News07/25/06
Fish & Richardson attorneys won a decisive patent defense victory for Fresenius Medical Care, a Massachusetts-based maker of dialysis machines. On July 18, an Oakland, Calif., jury invalidated all four of the patents being asserted by Baxter International against Fresenius. Baxter, based in Deerfield, Ill., was seeking $87 million in damages from Fresenius for patent infringement associated with the "Fresenius 2008K" hemodialysis machine and an injunction barring Fresenius from continuing to sell the unit. Fish & Richardson attorneys Juanita Brooks in San Diego and Thomas Melsheimer in Dallas represented Fresenius. "It was an extremely complicated case involving multiple complaints, cross-complaints and advanced technological issues. The bottom line is, the jury understood that Baxter's patents should never have been issued and that Baxter was due no compensation," Brooks said in a statement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:04:31 am into the following categories: In The News
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