Case Filed: Jul 21, 2010
Case Closed: Jan 30, 2014
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Case Summary:
Rmail, a postal service company
accused Amazon.com, PayPal and SWIFT of infringing patents covering instant
payment notification technology. Rmail filed a suit claiming that defendants
knowingly infringed and induced others to infringe. The patents-in-suit
included: US6182219 and US6571334 both entitled ‘Apparatus and method for
authenticating the dispatch and contents of documents’, which was issued on Jan
30, 2001 and May 27, 2003. The patents are set to expire[i]
by Aug 28, 2015 and are currently assigned[ii]
to Rmail (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The patents describe a method for
authenticating that certain information has been sent by a sender via a
dispatcher to a recipient.
The complaint alleged that
defendants manufacture products that infringe the claims of patents-in-suit and
cites Amazon Instant Order Processing Notification API, Instant Payment
Notification and FIN messaging services as the infringing products/services and
technologies. Furthermore, Rmail claims that the defendants' infringement “may
include additional products, services and technologies (to be determined in
discovery).”
The parties requested stay of the
case and upon consideration, Court granted stay and ordered the case to be
administratively closed. The parties are also directed to jointly furnish to
the Court written notice case details beginning December 1, 2014 and continuing
every three months.
See 2:10-cv-00258
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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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