Case Filed: Apr
01, 2013
Case Closed:
Dec 19, 2013
Court: California
Southern District Court
Judge: Dana M.
Sabraw
Case Summary:
e.Digital, a San
Diego based company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The
company alleged that most of Apple's products infringe upon three of their
patents regarding Flash-R technologies used in smartphones, tablets and other
computers.
The patents in
question were:
- US5491774 entitled Handheld record and playback device with flash memory issued on Feb 1996 and expiring* by Apr 19, 2014
- US5742737 entitled Method for recording voice messages on flash memory in a hand held recorder issued on Apr 21, 1998 and expiring* by Apr 19, 2014
- US5842170 entitled Method for editing in hand held recorder issued on Nov 24, 1998 and expiring* by Nov 14, 2014
The patents are currently
assigned+
to e.Digital (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). The complaint alleged that Apple manufactures products including iPhone, iPad (excluding the first generation), iPod
Touch (excluding the first generation), MacBook Pro and MacBook Air series of
computers that infringe on their patents covering the use of flash
memory technologies.
In Sep
30, e.Digital filed joint motion for entry of stipulated partial judgment after
which Court entered stipulated partial judgment of non-infringement in favor of Apple on e.Digital's claim for
infringement of independent claims 33 and 34 and dependent claims 2, 10, 15 and
23 of the '774 patent.
Later, parties filed joint motion for voluntary dismissal and
the Court ordered all claims against Apple be dismissed with prejudice and all
counterclaims against e.Digital be dismissed without prejudice. It was further
ordered all attorneys' fees, costs and expenses to be borne by each party.
See 3:13-cv-00785 for more details. To get alerts on cases
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*
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.
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interest are recorded.
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