Case
Filed: Dec
8, 2011
Case
Closed: Jun 11, 2014
Judge: Judge
Leonard Davis
Case
Summary:
Personal
Web engaged in developing and distributing software filed a patent suit against
Amazon, a distributor of web-based services
and products, accusing them of infringing upon Personal Web’s multiple
U.S patents covering data processing system. The suit was filed in the District
Court of Texas. Dropbox Inc. was the other defendant named in the suit. A few
other suits were filed by Personal Web on the same day asserting the same
patents against: NEC Corporation, Net app Inc., Caringo Inc., EMC Corporation.
Patents-in-suit:
The patents
involved in the suit are:
Patent Number
|
Title
|
Issue Date
|
||
Data processing
system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby
identical data items have the same identifiers
|
Nov 02,1999
|
Oct 24, 2017
|
||
Identifying and
requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of
data
|
Jul 02, 2002
|
Oct 24, 2017
|
||
Enforcement and
policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers
|
Aug 9, 2005
|
Oct 24, 2017
|
||
Controlling access
to data in a data processing system
|
Sep 21, 2010
|
Apr 11, 2015
|
||
Distributing and
accessing data in a data processing system
|
Jun 21, 2005
|
Jul 12, 2022
|
||
Similarity-based
access control of data in a data processing system
|
May 17, 2011
|
Apr 11, 2015
|
As in
Complaint:
Plaintiff
Personal
Web alleged that defendant Amazon has infringed the patents by its
manufacture, use, sale, importation, and/or offer for sale of the following
products and services: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon
ElastiCache. Dropbox was alleged of infringing web-based file hosting service that
uses Amazon's infringing S3 storage system to store files. Further the
complaint stated that the accused products and services are being offered in Texas.
Plaintiff
sent letters to defendants notifying their infringement of the patents and
wanted damages for irreparable harm caused due to the acts of infringement.
District
Court Judgment:
In Apr 2013, Dropbox was dismissed from the case without
prejudice as stipulation of dismissal was filed by Personal Web and court
granted and ordered each party to bear its own costs, expenses and attorneys’
fees.
Similarly,
on Jun 06, 2014 stipulation of dismissal was
filed and accordingly, court granted the motion ordering all claims,
counterclaims and third-party claims in the suit dismissed, thereby ending the
dispute.
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6:11-cv-00658 for
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