In a claim construction ruling on a coke oven corbel patent, the court gave “above” and “gas source” their plain meaning (with a clarification for “gas source”) and rejected an indefiniteness challenge to the “third passageway” limitation.
An Eastern District of Texas judge let patent owners accuse a not-yet-released product before serving infringement contentions, but refused a temporary restraining order because their showing rested only on the defendants’ marketing statements, with no physical product or specifications to com
Granting default judgment against defendants who re-uploaded extreme-weather videos to YouTube, a California federal court awarded $195,000 in copyright statutory damages and $28,000 under the DMCA, far below the $1.225 million requested.
A California federal court granted only part of a default judgment against defendants in Mexico who re-uploaded extreme-weather videos, finding several plaintiffs lacked standing, declining willfulness enhancements, and cutting requested damages and fees.
A Massachusetts federal court construed four terms in Nike’s Flyknit patent case, including limits for footwear, flat-knit edges, heel structures, and ankle parts.
A California federal court awarded $177,500 for copied YouTube videos, removed copyright information, and false DMCA counter-notices.
After a patent case pending since 2015, a Delaware federal judge held that claims directing bit and phase scrambling to reduce peak-to-average power ratio are patent-eligible, but that claims for calculating scrambled phases without applying them are abstract and lack an inventive concept.