Case Filed: Jun 27, 2013
Case Closed: Oct 21, 2013
Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Gregory M. Sleet
Case Summary:
Kewazinga and K Licensing (KL) claimed
Microsoft's Streetside and Bing Maps violate two of its patents. The patents in suit were: US6535226 and US6522325
both entitled ‘Navigable telepresence method and system utilizing an array of
cameras’ issued on Mar 18, 2003 and Feb 18, 2003 (respectively). The patents
expire[i]
by Apr 01, 2019. Horrow Sports Ventures is the current assignee[ii]
of the patents (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). As per the complaint, Kewazinga is the owner and KL is the
exclusive licensee of the patents.
It is said in the Court document
that Kewazinga exposed its proprietary and confidential information, including
business and technological ideas, plans and strategies with high-level executives
at Microsoft. Without the permission of Kewazinga, Microsoft has implemented or
plans to implement certain of their proprietary and confidential ideas
disclosed to Microsoft including adding navigable street-level imagery to Bing
Maps.
It alleged that Microsoft
infringed the claims of the '226 and ‘325
patents by making, having made, using, providing, selling and/or offering for
sale systems and methods protected including Streetside and Bing Maps with
Streetside that provide street level imagery and controls for navigating among
images. Kewazinga asked the Court for judgment that the patents have been
infringed, a permanent injunction preventing infringement, damages, interest on
damages and legal fees.
It appears that the parties have settled
the case and Kewazinga filed a notice of voluntary dismissal, pursuant to which
the Court granted dismissal without prejudice, thereby closing the case.
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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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applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.
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