Case Filed: Sep 27, 2013
Case Closed: Dec 06, 2013
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Case Summary:
Patent holding company Penovia
filed an infringement suit against Cisco accusing them of infringing the
company’s patented technology for office machine monitoring device. The patent
in question is US5822221 issued on Oct 13, 1998 and expiring[i]
by Dec 04, 2016. The document stated that the ‘221 patent expired on or about
October 13, 2010, because its owner, the inventor Frank S. Groenteman, was not
able to pay the maintenance fee to USPTO and later Penovia LLC acquired the
patent. Penovia is the current assignee[ii]
of the ‘221 patent (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The complaint alleged that Cisco
infringed the patent, which covers a device that can wirelessly transmit
messages to and receive communications from office machines including
computers, printers and copiers. Defendant is alleged to have directly
infringed at least claim 1 of the ‘221 patent by making, using, importing,
selling and/or offering for sale office machine monitoring devices, including
wireless routers and/or wireless gateways utilizing a device for monitoring
certain machine statuses wirelessly, the complaint said. The accused products
include Linksys WRT100 RangePlus Wireless Router products.
The parties announced to Court
that they have settled the case among themselves, after which agreed motion for
dismissal was filed by Penovia. Upon consideration, the Court granted the
motion and ordered all claims asserted against Cisco be dismissed with
prejudice, thereby closing the case. Each party will bear their own costs and
expenses. Further details of the settlement were not disclosed.
See 2:13-cv-00774 for more details.
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator
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expiration dates for U.S. utility patents
[ii]
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