Case Filed: Feb 21, 2014
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Case Summary:
CyberFone, an IP licensing
company claimed violation of their patent covering data transaction to
applications in the wireless, telecommunications, financial and other
industries. CyberFone is the current assignee[i]
of the US6044382 patent, entitled “Data Transaction Assembly Server” (source:
MaxVal’s Assignment
Database), which the United States Patent & Trademark Office duly
issued on March 28, 2000. The patent is scheduled to expire[ii]
by May 19, 2015.
The inventions
of the ’382 patent are applicable to form-based data transaction processing. The
complaint says, the ’382 patent has already been the subject of over thirty
licensing agreements, which generated over $15 million in licensing revenue.
Xerox’s Infringing Products and Methods
As the complaint claims, Xerox
uses form-based data transaction processing platforms comprising a transaction
entry device / transmission assembly server, a transmission medium and a server
connected to the transaction entry device via the transmission medium including,
the Xerox Work Centre 7220 and Work Centre 7225 multi-function printers and
Xerox ConnectKey Share to Cloud (“Xerox Infringing Products”).
It further claimed that defendant
directly infringes, literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, the ’382 patent
by making, using, offering to sell, and/or selling, and/or importing into the
United States, without authority, the above mentioned form-based data
processing platforms. Defendant’s direct infringement includes (i) making and
using the apparatus of at least claim 19 and (ii) practicing the method of at
least claim 13.
Prayer for Relief
CyberFone asks the Court to permanently
enjoin the use of the form-based data processing platforms created using the
patented methods of the ’382 patent; awarding costs and expenses in this
action; and awarding pre/post-judgment interest on its damages.
See 2:14-cv-00112 for more details. To get
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[i]MaxVal offers Patent Assignment Alert service where
subscribers receive email alerts when assignments relating to target
applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.
[ii]Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a
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dates for U.S. utility patents.
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