District Courts

Judge Gilstrap largely sided with NPE K.Mizra in a claim construction ruling on three networking patents asserted against Nokia, rejecting Nokia’s attempts to narrow key terms like “preemption” and “Virtual Switch Instance.”

Magistrate Judge Payne narrowed both sides’ expert testimony in a patent-assertion-entity dispute over whether a Cisco-Intel RPX license reaches EireOg’s ‘777 patent, allowing industry-structure opinions but excluding public-policy commentary and testimony on already-decided licens