Case Filed: Nov 11, 2013
Case Closed: Dec 23, 2013
Court: Gregory M. Sleet
Judge: Delaware District Court
Case Summary:
Message
Notification Technologies filed a patent infringement suit against Oracle
claiming unauthorized use of intellectual property. The patent in suit was: US5944786
entitled ‘Automatic notification of receipt of electronic mail (e-mail) via
telephone system without requiring log-on to e-mail server’, issued on Aug 31, 1999
and expiring[i] by
Dec 04, 2016. The patent is currently assigned[ii]
to Empire IP (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). According to the complaint, MessageTech is the owner of the ‘786
patent with all substantive rights in and to that patent.
According to USPTO,
the patent relates to electronic mail notification systems, particularly of the
type which notify a recipient of the presence of electronic mail on a remote
electronic mail server.
The complaint
alleged that Oracle “had made, used, imported, provided, supplied, distributed,
sold, and/or offered for sale unified messaging systems/products/services that,
upon receipt of an email, actuate a voice mail system to send an e-mail
notification signal to a telephone node that infringed one or more claims of
the ‘786 patent”. Oracle Unified Communications Suite was believed to be
infringing systems/products/services by MessageTech.
It appears that
the parties have settled the case and MessageTech filed a notice of voluntary
dismissal to dismiss the claims against Oracle with prejudice, thereby closing
the case.
See 1:13-cv-01882 for more details. To get alerts on cases
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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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