Plaintiff: Clear With Computers
Defendant: The Raymond Corporation
A patent infringement case (6:13-cv-00162) was filed by Clear With Computers against
Raymond Corporation in the Texas Eastern District Court on Feb 19th.
The patents-in-suit are US7606739 (Electronic Proposal Preparation System) and US5625776 (Electronic Proposal Preparation System for
Selling Computer Equipment and Copy Machines) and they are currently
assigned[i]
to Clear with Computers (source:
Maxval's Assignment
Database). Further the
‘739 patent expired as of May 5th 2012, the plaintiff had petitioned
for PTA recalculation which has been dismissed by USPTO.
The patents relates to a system for creating a customized
proposal by linking together product pictures, optional environment pictures
showing environments in which the product may be used, and text related to the
product. The system includes means for linking together predetermined product
pictures, optional environment pictures, and text based upon a potential
customer's answers to predetermined queries.
The complaint alleges that the defendant uses the marketing
methods that are covered by the claims of the ‘776 and ‘739 patent, including
www.rangerboats.com and all related instrumentalities used to deliver web pages
from that domain, including related web servers and database servers and their
associated software.
The plaintiff has filed other infringement suits (6:13-cv-00161 Fishing
Holdings, 6:13-cv-00163 Salford,
6:13-cv-00164 Textron,
6:13-cv-00165 Universal
Forest Products, 6:13-cv-00166 Valmont
Industries, 6:13-cv-00167 Vermeer
Corporation, 6:13-cv-00168 Yanmar
America Corporation, 6:13-cv-00169 Alamo
Group, 6:13-cv-00170 Alcoa)
on the same day asserting the same patents. If
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applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.
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