Case Filed: Jul 02, 2013
Case Closed: Mar
18, 2014
Origin Case: 8:11-cv-01754
Case Summary:
Operating
Systems Solutions, a Florida-based company filed a suit against Apple for
patent infringement in the Florida Middle District Court in Aug 2011.
The patent
involved in this suit is RE40092
entitled ‘Method for quickly booting a computer system’ issued on Feb 19, 2008
and expiring[i] by
May 11, 2018. The patent is currently assigned[ii]
to Operating Systems Solutions (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). The invention claimed is a method for booting a personal
computer system quickly, where boot configuration information is created and saved
in a disk for future boot and the saved boot configuration information is
reused upon the subsequent boot request.
The lawsuit alleged
that Apple's OS X operating system infringed the above patent relating to quick
booting a computer system. The plaintiff cited MacBook that utilizes OS X as
infringing. Operating Systems Solutions sought lost profits and damages for
Apple's alleged infringement.
District Court
Judge rendered final judgment on Jun 2013 in favor of Apple and against Operating
Systems Solutions. Soon after this, the case was appealed by the plaintiff to
the Federal Circuit where the judgment of District Court was affirmed.
See 2013-1487
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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]
Patent Marker provides an online environment
where patentees can virtually mark products and search products for patent-related
information.
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