Case Summary
A patent infringement suit was
filed by Summit 6, a patent holding company against RIM, Samsung, Multiply, Facebook and Photobucket in violation
of their patents cover software and methods
for pre-processing media, such as digital photographs, before transmission to a
remote location. The suit was filed in the
Texas District Court on Feb 23, 2011. The patents in the suit were:
US6895557 - Web-based media
submission tool, issued on May 17, 2005
US7765482 - Web-based media
submission tool, issued on Jul 27, 2010
Both the patents expire[i]
by Jul 21, 2019. The patents were originally assigned[ii] to Pictureworks
Technology (owned by iPIX) and currently assigned to Summit 6 (source: MaxVal’s
Assignment
Database). Summit 6 alleged that the defendants
are infringing its technology to manufactures devices and/or operate websites
where digital content is compressed before being uploaded to and received by a
remote server.
RIM, Multiply, Facebook and Photobucket
settled the case and Samsung was the only defendant left in the trial. On Jan
26, the Court rendered its final verdict, ordering judgment in favor of Summit
6 with a $15M award.
See case 3:11-cv-00367
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that
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patents
[ii]
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