On Tuesday, November 20, 2012, AMS
(plaintiff) filed a complaint for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and
patent invalidity against eTAGZ (defendant) in the U.S. District
Court of Winconsin (case no. 3:12-cv-00843).
AMS is engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling
bow fishing equipment. eTAGZ is involved in digital shopping
marketing initiatives for manufacturers, retailers and content providers to
drive merchandise sales and capture new consumers.
The patents involved in this are suit are owned by the defendant eTAGZ and
are listed below:
Patent Number
Current Assignee[i]
|
Issue Date
|
Expiration Date[ii]
|
Title
|
|
Oct 02,
2001
|
May 06,
2019
|
CD-ROM product label apparatus and
method
|
|
Mar 17,
2009
|
May 06,
2019
|
Computer readable hang tag and product
|
|
Apr 27,
2010
|
May 06,
2019
|
Consumer-computer-readable product
label apparatus and method
|
Note: Table information sourced from MaxVal’s Assignment Database.
As per the complaint, around September 7, 2012, AMS
received a letter from eTAGZ stating that their products including a fishing product with a DVD package
utilize the inventions embodied in the ‘332, ‘502, ‘686 patents. All these
patents relate to a CD-ROM product label apparatus and method. AMS alleges that
fishing product with a DVD package does
not meet the interpreted limitations of any claim in the above patents and therefore
does not infringe them. The declaratory judgment complaint further seeks a ruling that the above 3 patents are invalid.
AMS has filed a patent infringement suit
on Allen Company and the details are as follows:
Case Number
|
Date Filed
|
Status
|
03/01/2011
|
Open
|
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[ii] Expected expiration date. Patent Term
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