Plaintiff: CompuFill
Defendant: Delhaize America
Delhaize America is being hit by CompuFill with patent infringement case (1:13-cv-00041) on Feb 14th in North
Carolina District Court. Delhaize America through its subsidiaries operates
retail food supermarkets in the eastern United States. The company’s
supermarkets sell various grocery, produce, meat, dairy, seafood, frozen food,
and deli-bakery products, as well as non-food items, such as health and beauty
care products, prescription medicines, and other household and personal
products.
Patent-in-suit includes US6728684 (On-Line Pharmacy Automated Refill System) and it is currently assigned[i] to CompuFill (Source: Maxval’s Assignment Database). The patent relates to the field of
refilling patient prescriptions using telephone and computer equipment even if
patient databank computer interactive communications are unavailable.
The complaint says that defendant infringes the above patent
through the automated system for requesting prescription refills. It also says
that the methods for processing requests for prescription refills is covered by
the claims of the ‘684 patent.
The plaintiff has filed other infringement suits (1:13-cv-00041, 3:13-cv-00096) on the same day asserting the same
patent on substantially the same product. If
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