International Seaway v. Walgreen Co. et al.

Jan 22, 2009

OUTCOME: Summary judgment of invalidity granted

Defended Walgreens and Touchsport against design patent infringement involving plastic clog shoes. We successfully argued that the three design patents were invalid due to Crocs prior art. Case is ... noteworthy as the first time the Egyptian Goddess case (eliminating the point of novelty test for infringement) was applied to an invalidity analysis.

Amini Innovation Corp. v. JS Imports and Designer Furniture Warehouse, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43758 (C.D. Cal. May 21, 2007)

Dec 31, 2007

OUTCOME: Defendants' motion denied

New York and Maryland-based defendants were accused of willfully infringing copyrights and design patents owned by plaintiff and covering the ornamental features of the furniture plaintiff sells. Defen ... dants moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and/or improper venue or, in the alternative, to transfer the case to the Southern District of New York. The Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss under the Calder “effects test” finding that the evidence tended to show that defendants must have known that their alleged willful copyright infringements would cause harm plaintiff, a California corporation. The court denied defendants’ motion to transfer because, among other things, they failed to set forth the identity and anticipated testimony of non-party witnesses who might be inconvenienced by the case going forward in California

Sensitech v. Time N' Temperature

Apr 17, 2007

OUTCOME: Appeal court invalidated patent, parties settled

On summary judgment, the trial court held that defendant infringed the plaintiff's patent for in-transit temperature recorders, and denied defendant's motion for invalidity. Defendant appealed. While ... on appeal, we successfully defended against plaintiff's summary judgment motions for willfulness, damages, enhanced damages, and contempt. Shortly thereafter, the Federal Circuit reversed the trial court, found that several claims of the patent were invalid, and remanded for the trial court to determine if any of the remaining claims were valid. The parties then settled.

Amini Innovation Corp. v. Anthony California, Inc. et al, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 420 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 8, 2007)

Jan 08, 2007

OUTCOME: Plaintiff prevailed on appeal

the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s order granting summary judgment of non-infringement of a design patent for a dresser since it was improper to focus on specific elements of the dress ... ers rather than analyzing the designs as wholes from the perspective of an ordinary observer. The design patent and a photograph of the competitor’s dresser created a factual issue as to whether an ordinary observer was likely to purchase one dresser thinking it was the other

Wolf Designs, Inc. v. Donald McEvoy Ltd., Inc., 341 F. Supp. 2d 639 (N.D. Tex. 2004)

Dec 31, 2006

OUTCOME: Plaintiff's motion granted

court granted Plaintiff’s motion to stay case pending resolution of related case in California

Wolf Designs, Inc. v. Donald McEvoy Ltd., Inc., 355 F. Supp. 2d 848 (N.D. Tex. 2005)

Dec 31, 2006

OUTCOME: Defendants' motion denied

court denied Defendants’ motion to reopen cases, lift stay, and transfer venue

Wolf Designs, Inc. v. Donald McEvoy Ltd., Inc., 2005 U.S. Dist. Lexis 5853 (N.D. Tex. Apr. 6, 2005)

Dec 31, 2006

OUTCOME: Defendants' motion denied

a motion for reconsideration of the denial of a motion to transfer venue pursuant to 28 U.S.C.S. § 1404(a) was denied because Defendants failed to show that the cases could have been brought in the tr ... ansferee forum and they possessed "new" evidence supporting minimum contacts with the transferee forum at the time they brought their original motion

Live Wire Productions v. Liberty Media

Jan 01, 2001

OUTCOME: Preliminary injunction obtained, Then settled

Nikken v. Homedics et al.

Jan 01, 1999

OUTCOME: Jury verdict of willful patent infringement

NCE v. Lockheed-Martin

Jan 01, 1998

OUTCOME: Preliminary Injunction Obtained, then case settled