Case
Filed: Oct 03, 2014
Court:
District
of California
Judge:
Laurel Beeler
Case
Summary:
Vantage Point
Technology, Inc. (Vantage), a Texas based Corporation filed a case against
Apple, Inc. a California based corporation alleging that the latter has
infringed one of their US patents.
Patent
in suit:
·
US5463750 entitled ‘System
for accessing distributed data cache at each network node to pass requests and
data,’ issued on Oct 31, 1995 and expired[i]
Nov 02, 2013
The ‘750 patent was last assigned to Vantage
Point Technology
(source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database[ii]) and according to the complaint, Vantage
is the owner of the patent. The
750 patent claims related to a method and apparatus for translating virtual
addresses in a computing system having multiple instruction pipelines.
As
in Complaint:
Vantage alleged
that products manufactured by defendant infringed claims of the ‘750 patent as embodied in electronic
devices and chipsets of the patented technology. The products
cited were: Apple A6, A6X, A5, A5X, A4, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPhone 4,
iPhone 3Gs, iPad (4th Gen) iPad (3rd Gen). The complaint said Vantage is entitled to recovery
of past damages, and at a minimum, a reasonable royalty.
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free
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for U.S. utility patents.
[ii]
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