Case Filed: Mar 07, 2014
Court: Delaware District Court
Case Summary:
CRFD Research, Inc. (a subsidiary
of Marathon), a Virginia-based patent licensing company filed a suit against Netflix,
an Internet subscription service company alleging infringement of the patent US7191233
entitled ‘System for automated, mid-session, user-directed, device-to-device
session transfer system’. The patent was originally issued to Tele Communication
Systems, Inc. on Mar 13, 2007 and expires[i]
by Sep 17, 2021. The patent is currently assigned[ii]
to CRFD (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The complaint said, defendant
makes, uses, sells, leases, imports and offers for sale products that allow
users to transfer an on-going software session from one device to another
device, including its streaming video services and device applications (infringing
products).
The complaint further added that
defendant purports that a user can “continue watching something [on a device],
even if [the user] started watching on a different device”, which in a manner
is claimed in the ‘233 patent.
CRFD claims that Netflix knew
that the accused products constitute a material part of the inventions of the
’233 patent. As a result of Netflix’s infringement of the ’233 patent, CRFD has
suffered and will continue to suffer damage and stated that they are entitled
to recover damages adequate to compensate for such infringement, which have yet
to be determined.
Other than suing Netflix, CRFD
Research has filed four patent infringement suits against Hulu, Spotify, Amazon
and Verizon all in the Delaware District Court asserting two patents US7191233
and US7574486.
See 1:14-cv-00314
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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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