Case Filed: Jul 25, 2013
Case Closed: Dec 13, 2013
Court: California Northern District Court
Judge: William Alsup
Case Summary:
A patent infringement case was filed by Touchscreen
Gestures against LG claiming that the latter have violated four patents related
to providing functionality through a host of smartphone gestures including
dragging, tapping on a display and scrolling. The patents involved are:
- US7180506 - Method for identifying a movement of single tap on a touch device, issued on Feb 20, 2007
- US7184031 - Method and controller for identifying a drag gesture, issued on Feb 27, 2007
- US7190356 - Method and controller for identifying double tap gestures, issued on Mar 13, 2007
- US7319457 - Method of scrolling window screen by means of controlling electronic device, issued on Jan 15, 2008
The ‘506, ‘356 and ‘457 patents expire[i] on
Feb 12, 2024 and the ‘031 patent expires on Jul 06, 2024. These patents are
currently assigned[ii]
to Touchscreen Gestures (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database). The patents were originally issued to Sentelic
Corporation, a Taiwan based company, manufacturing products including touch
screens, touch pads, and touch buttons for applications in electronic devices.
The complaint stated that the patents are ‘directed to novel, unique and
non-obvious methods’.
Touchscreen Gestures accused a bunch of LG products
such as LG Genesis, Elite, Ignite, myTouch, Vortex smartphones as well as the
LG Optimus and G-Slate tablets, which allow the identification of drag, tap and
scroll gestures via methods, controllers and gestures units as infringing
claims of the ‘031, ‘506, ‘356 and ‘457 patents.
Initially, the case revolved around 4 patents and
later an amended complaint was filed asserting the '031, '506 and '356 patents,
thus dismissing its assertion the '457 patent. The case was then transferred
from Eastern District of Texas to Northern District of California. Later, the
parties agreed to resolve the dispute after which LG filed a stipulation of
dismissal with prejudice, thereby ending the litigation.
See 3:13-cv-03442 for more details. To get alerts on cases filed/closed, subscribe to
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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
offers Patent Assignment Alert service where subscribers receive email alerts
when assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of
interest are recorded.
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