Under instigating circumstances that appear similar to Robert Kearns’ famous battle against the Big Three automakers over the windshield wiper yet having a decidedly different outcome, the inventor of a side view mirror emergency light recently battled Ford Motor Company before the Federal Circuit after Ford appealed the District Court’s verdict finding the patent valid and awarding the plaintiff nearly $56 million.[1] Read the remainder of this entry »
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Patent Found Invalid for Anticipation in Light of Foreign Patent
By Robert H. Bejcek II | Filed in CAFC, Damages, International IP, IP Litigation, Patent, Patent Licensing, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, Prosecution HistoryGoogle’s Motion for Attorneys’ Fees Denied on Appeal
By Robert H. Bejcek II | Filed in CAFC, Claim Construction, Damages, IP Litigation, Patent LitigationSeveral years ago, iLOR, LLC, owner of U.S. Patent No. 7,206,839 (“’839 patent”) for a method “for adding a user selectable function to a hyperlink,” filed suit against Google claiming that the Google Notebook product infringed the ‘839 patent.[i] According to Claim 26 of the ‘839 patent, the method comprised a “toolbar being displayable based on a location of a cursor in relation to a hyperlink in a first page in a first window of an application.”[ii] Read the remainder of this entry »
