Case Filed: Oct 04, 2012
Case Closed: Oct 23, 2013
Court: Delaware District Court
Judge: Sue L. Robinson
Case Summary:
A patent infringement suit was
filed by Telecomm Innovations against Toshiba for violating their US patent
number US5396519 related to encoding data for transfer over a communication
channel. The patent entitled ‘Method and apparatus for adaptively providing
precoding and preemphasis conditioning to signal data for transfer over a
communication channel’ was legally issued to William L. Betts and Edward S.
Zuranski on Mar 07, 1995 and expired[i]
on Oct 22, 2013. The patent was last assigned[ii]
to Clearwater Innovations (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database) and as per the complaint, Telecomm was the assignee with the rights
to enforce and prosecute actions for infringement of the ‘519 patent.
In the 5 page complaint document,
plaintiff alleged that defendant infringed the ‘519 patent by making use of the
products that incorporate dial up modems or functionalities that perform the
signal conditioning method outlined in the patent-in-suit. Telecomm named
Toshiba’s fax cable products such as e-Studio 170F, e-Studio 190F, e-Studio
240C, e-Studio 3040, etc. as infringing. Further, the complaint specified that
defendant was made aware of the ‘519 patent and their infringement. Telecomm sought
Court for relief including judgment that the patent-in-suit has been infringed as
well as damages for willful infringement.
Plaintiff on Oct 18 filed
stipulation of dismissal, considering which the Court granted and ordered the
civil action to be dismissed without prejudice with no charges imposed on any
parties.
See
case 1:12-cv-01280 for more
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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] MaxVal
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when assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of
interest are recorded.
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