• Data Engine Techs. LLC v. Google LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wimington, DE; Amir Alavi,, Demetrios Anaipakos, Alisa A. Lipski, Timothy Shelby, Scott W. Clark, Monica Uddin, Nathan Campbell, and Louis Liao, Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing, P.C., Houston, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Frederick L. Cottrell and Jason J. Rawnsley, Richards, Layton & Finger, PA, Wilmington, DE; Gregory P. Stone, Eric P. Tuttle, Zachary M. Briers, Hannah Dubina, Ashley D. Kaplan and Peter A. Detre, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D68816

    Court ruled that a preamble term was limiting because it was essential to understand the remaining terms in the claim, and accepted defendant's proposed construction where the intrinsic evidence required construing the term as requiring a mathematical relationship.

  • Cirba Inc. v. VMware, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-11
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Dorsney, Morris James, Wilmington, DE; Courtland L. Reichman, Shawna Ballard, Jennifer P. Estremera, Michael G. Flanigan, Joachim B. Steinberg, Kate Falkenstien, Ariel C. Green, Sarah O. Jorgensen, Christine E. Lehman, Khue V. Ho-ant, Jaime Cardenas-Navia and Wesley L. White, Reichman Jorgensen LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, Atlanta GA, Washington, DC and New York, NY; Gary J. Toman, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, GA; Peter J. Ayers, Law Office of Peter J. Ayers, PLLC , Austin, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Anne Shea Gaza, Robert M. Vrana and Samantha G. Wilson of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ar-turo J. González, Michael A. Jacobs, Richard S.J. Hung, Bita Rahebi and Scott F. Llewellyn, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO for defendant.

    Case Number: D68802

    The court construed disputed patent terms based on intrinsic evidence.

  • Baker v. Alpha Consol. Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald C. Finley, Justin T. Beck, and Remington A. Lenton-Young, Beck, Bismonte & Finley LLP, San Jose, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Clement J. Naples and Michelle L. Ernst, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Ron E. Shulman, Latham & Watkins LLP, Menlo Park, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: D68791

    Court construed patent terms to be consistent with the depictions of the invention in the figures in the patent.

  • David and Lily Penn, Inc. v. TruckPro, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-09
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Automotive | Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Francella, Jr., Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Camille M. Miller, Melanie A. Miller, and J. Trevor Cloak, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Timothy Devlin and James M. Lennon, Devlin Law Group, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68728

    Motion to transfer venue denied where plaintiff chose to litigate in state of defendant's incorporation and thus plaintiff's preference was afforded great weight in balance of factors.

  • Jackson v. Ivens

    Publication Date: 2019-10-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stuart B. Drowos, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for state defendants.
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.C., Wilmington, DE for Correctional Medical Services defendants. Karine Sarkisian, White and Williams, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D68729

    Plaintiff did not file his motion for relief from a judgment within a reasonable time, and he failed to demonstrate that "newly discovered evidence" would have changed the outcome at trial, or that a grave miscarriage of justice occurred.

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  • Finom Mgmt. GMBH v. Celerion Holdco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. Day, Day Law Group, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Donley, Peter Blume and Christopher M. Brubaker, Clark Hill PLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Travis S. Hunter, Tyler E. Cragg and Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D68721

    Plaintiffs adequately alleged that defendants engaged in bad faith violations of the parties' redemption agreement, but the court dismissed the remainder of plaintiffs' claim.

  • Gray v. Kirkwood Dental Assoc., P.A.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelle D. Allen and Caitlyn E. Quinn, Allen & Assoc., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kristen S. Swift and Robert D. Cecil, Jr., Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68722

    The court granted an employer's motion for summary judgment on two claims by a former employee, but it denied summary judgment on a federal discrimination claim because the employee provided sufficient circumstantial evidence that the employer terminated her for discriminatory reasons due to her age.

  • Vifor Fresenius Med. Care Renal Pharma Ltd. v. Lupin Atlantis Holdings SA

    Publication Date: 2019-09-18
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Raymond N. Nimrod, Steven C. Cherny, Matthew A. Traupman, Lauren N. Martin and Nancy Zhang, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY, Boston, Ma and San Francisco, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John W. Shaw, Karen K. Keller and Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr. and David A. Bilson, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Anuj K. Wadhwa, Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik, LLP, Chicago, IL; Scott J. Bornstein, Richard C. Pettus, Michael H. Imbacuan, Julie P. Bookbinder and Johnathan R. Wise, Green-berg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: D68709

    In this claim construction matter, the court determined that the disputed terms were not indefinite, because the specification and prosecution history provided sufficient guidance to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

  • Arendi S.A.R.L. v. LG Elec., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal C. Belgam, Eve H. Ormerod, and Beth A. Swadley, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE, Stephen Susman, Seth Ard, and Max Straus, Susman Godfrey, LLP, New York, NY, John Lahad, Susman Godfrey, LLP, Houston, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jeremy D. Anderson, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, DE, Steven R. Katz and Matthew C. Berntsen, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Boston, MA, Denise S. Kraft, Brian A. Biggs, and Erin E. Larson, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE, Mark D. Fowler, Christine K. Corbett, and Summer Torrez, DLA Piper LLP (US), East Palo Alto, CA, Robert C. Williams and Kevin C. Hamilton, DLA Piper LLP (US), San Diego, CA, Richard K. Herrmann, Mary B. Matterer, and Kenneth L. Dorsney, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE, Brian C. Riopelle and David E. Finkelson, McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, VA, Rachelle Thompson, McGuireWoods LLP, Raleigh, NC, Jack B. Blumenfeld and Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE, Heidi L. Keefe and Lowell D. Mead, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA, DeAnna Allen and Phillip E. Morton, Cooley LLP, Washington, DC, David E. Moore, Bindu A. Palapura, and Stephanie E. O’Byrne, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE, Robert W. Unikel, Robert Laurenzi, Michelle Marek Figueiredo, and John Cotiguala, Paul Hastings LLP, Chicago, IL, Rodger D. Smith, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE, Jeffri A. Kaminski and Justin E. Pierce, Venable LLP, Washington, DC, Jack B. Blumenfeld and Anthony David Raucci, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE, Jeffri A. Kaminsi, Venable LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: D68687

    Where patent claims failed to provide sufficient structure for a term or where a POS would not be on sufficient notice to know which algorithms were claimed by a patent, such claims were indefinite.

  • Cropper v. Danberg

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Evan O. Williford and Andrew J. Huber, The Williford Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ryan P. Connell, Deputy Attorney General, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D67670

    An inmate had standing to assert claims against prison officials because his injuries were fairly traceable to the alleged bad acts of those officials.