Apple logo on electronic gadget. Photo: ALMApple Asks Judge to 'Follow the Majority Practice' in Dismissing Patent Dispute Over Night Vision Technology
"Courts, including in this district, have resoundingly rejected this approach, dismissing willful infringement claims where a complaint alleged that a defendant learned of the asserted patents solely through the filing of the complaint," attorneys with DLA Piper wrote on behalf of Apple's motion to dismiss a patent suit brought by SiOnyx over night vision technology.
November 19, 2024 at 04:16 PM
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In response to a patent infringement suit over night vision imaging allegedly used in the iPhone 15, Apple asked a federal judge in Boston on Monday to dismiss claims that failed to show the big tech company had any "pre-suit knowledge" of the patents at issue.
In September, counsel with Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders filed a three-count lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of SiOnyx, which claims Apple directly, indirectly and willfully infringed on low-light patented camera technology for the iPhone 15. In SiOnyx v. Apple, the plaintiff said it developed and manufactured ultra-low-light complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensors and high-performance night vision camera systems.
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