Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Sue L. Robinson
Case Summary:
Data Speed Technology sued Canon
on Jun 10, 2013, stating that their patent US5867686 was infringed. The patent
entitled, ‘High
speed real-time information storage system’
was issued on Feb 02, 1999 and expires[i]
by Nov 09, 2013. The patent was originally issued to
Kenneth Conner and currently assigned[ii] to Data Speed Technology (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The ‘686 patent relates to an
information storage system enabling high speed data transfer to and from a shared
mass storage device by multiple computers without causing conflicts. Plaintiff
alleged that defendant’s storage products and services uses a method of
providing memory access to a mass storage device as claimed in the ‘686 patent.
The accused products and services included a program entitled Canon imageWARE. Plaintiff
sought judgment in favor, permanent injunction and money damages associated
with attorneys’ fees.
It appears that the parties have
settled the case, as the patent holding company Data Speed Technology filed
voluntary dismissal. Upon consideration of the notice filed, the case is
declared ‘closed’ on Jul 30, 2013.
Data Speed Technology also lodged
separate suits against Cisco, HP, EMC, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Abode
asserting the same patent, which are pending.
See case 1:13-cv-01052
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based
tool that automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S.
utility patents.
[ii]
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