Case Filed: Nov 20, 2013
Case Closed: Apr 22, 2014
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Case Summary:
Plano, Texas-based non-practicing
entity, eDekka filed a patent infringement suit accusing Symantec of violating
patent rights. The suit concerned the company’s website's use of "shopping
cart" functionality which eDekka claims as their technology. The patent
involved in the suit is: US6266674 entitled ‘Random access information
retrieval utilizing user-defined labels,’ originally assigned to inventor Donald
J Hejna Jr. on Jul 24, 2001 and expiring[i]
by Jul 24, 2018.
The ‘674 patent is currently assigned[ii]
to eDekka (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). According to the complaint, the ‘674 patent has been
forward-cited as prior art in connection with the examination of several
subsequently-issued U.S. patents, including patents originally assigned to such
prominent technology companies as Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc., Bellsouth
Intellectual Property Corp., and Agilent Technologies, Inc.
The patented technology relates
to a method of storing information wherein a user defines labels which relate
to the stored information and the user defines a data structure.
eDekka alleged that Symantec has
infringed the ‘674 patent by actions including making and/or using one or more
websites with “shopping cart” functionality in their website www.symantec.com as
well as associated sub-sites, web pages and functionality within that website. eDekka
claimed monetary damages and enjoinment of defendant’s infringing activities as
it caused irreparable harm.
The Court considered the agreed
motion for dismissal of all claims between eDekka and Symantec, thereby ordering
all claims dismissed with prejudice, with each party to bear its own costs,
expenses and attorneys’ fees.
See 2:13-cv-00984
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that
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patents
[ii]
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