Judge Ronald Gould, U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
An unsuccessful patent litigant can be precluded from bringing copyright claims that arise from the same allegations of IP theft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
The court ruled that Media Rights Technologies Inc. (MRT) cannot sue Microsoft Corp. for copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations that could have been included in its 2013 patent suit against the tech giant.
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