Case Filed: Aug 12, 2013
Case Closed: Dec 23, 2013
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Case Summary:
Lakshmi Arunachalam filed an
infringement suit against Home Depot accusing them of infringing their patented
technology relating to a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way
transactional capabilities on the web. The patent involved in the suit was: US8346894
entitled ‘real-time web transactions from web applications’, issued on Jan 01, 2013
and expiring[i] by
Aug 05, 2016. Lakshmi is the owner of the ‘894 patent with all substantive
rights in and to that patent.
According to the complaint, the
’894 patent discloses the technology underlying web commerce and real-time web
based transactions that are embodied in defendant’s accused products and
services. Defendant provides real-time web transactions from web applications
that are accessible through its website http://www.homedepot.com/,
which was believed to be the accused products and services.
Plaintiff filed voluntary dismissal,
pursuant to which the Court ordered that all claims and counterclaims to be
dismissed without prejudice. It was
further ordered that attorneys’ fees, expense and costs be incurred by the parties
themselves.
See 2:13-cv-00613 for
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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.
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