Case Filed: Aug 23, 2013
Case Closed: Feb 24, 2014
Judge: Charlene Edwards Honeywell
Court: Delaware District Court
Case Summary:
Sonic Industry, a non-practicing
entity filed a complaint against Digital Insight over an alleged infringement
of patent US5954793 entitled “Remote limit-setting information distribution
system”. The ‘793 patent discloses and claims information distribution system
that is remotely-configurable by subscribers via a communications network.
According to the complaint, Digital
Insight develops computer software and hardware that is used by financial
institutions for providing online banking services to customers.
The patent was duly and legally
issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to Peter Steve Stutman
and J. Mark Miller on Sep 12, 1999 and expired[i]
on Mar 09, 2013. The patent was last assigned[ii]
to Wilson Telemetry (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The suit against Digital Insight
elaborated: upon information and belief, defendant infringed one or more claims
of the ‘793 patent by making, using, providing, offering to sell, and selling
in United States, systems and methods for using a remote device to set a selection
and limit on a server. The suit sought unspecified damages but for willful
infringement.
In Dec 2013, a notice of settlement
was filed in Court signifying the dispute has been settled. Accordingly, it was
ordered that the case be dismissed without prejudice. It was further ordered
that the parties should submit a stipulated form of final order or judgment or
for any party to move to reopen the action within sixty (60) days.
Later, in Feb 2014, Sonic
Industry filed a motion to reopen the case and filed an amended complaint.
However, within a few days of amended complaint, Sonic filed for voluntary
dismissal following which the Court dismissed the case with prejudice, thereby
ending the litigation.
See 6:13-cv-01295
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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]
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