The judge overturned 168 trials initiated by a single patent troll.
In 2014, the Texan company eDekka with a single asset - patent number 6,266,674 filed 168 claims to online retailers. But the patent troll caught an adequate judge, who stopped all these court proceedings and makes eDekka pay all the fees of the defendants ’lawyers.
District judge Rodney Gilstrap (Rodney Gilstrap) is criticized for complicating the lives of the defendants on the issue of patenting. He handled more patent cases than any other American judge. This time the judge did not side with the plaintiff.
The entire eDekka company terrorized the whole of 2014 with claims of online retailers, sellers of goods from coffee to shoes, with a single patent. A judge, while studying a patent, discovered that he describes "an abstract idea of ​​storing and marking information" and "routine tasks that a person can perform." EDekka itself claims that the patent “improves the functionality of the technology,” but the judge decided that there was not a single proof of this.
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The judge invited to the hearing all the defendants on the claims eDekka and decided the plaintiff to pay their fees to lawyers. For this, Gilstrap tentatively requested this data from all respondents. Most of the respondents spent from 13 to 16 thousand dollars to defend in court, and now eDekka will have to pay 390 thousand.
Austin Hansley (Austin Hansley), whose small law office in Texas also represented the second and third largest patent trolls in 2014, was trolling in the courts for eDekka, writes ARStechnica . Of all the cases of eDekka, this control filed hundreds of lawsuits, of which 87 - in one week .
The eDekka patent was issued by an entrepreneur and inventor Donald Hejna, who once sued Apple for infringing a patent related to changing the speed of watching a video without losing sound. Then his company Enounce claimed that the first gave such an opportunity to users for video in Adobe Flash.
District judge Rodney Gilstrap (Rodney Gilstrap) is criticized for complicating the lives of the defendants on the issue of patenting. He handled more patent cases than any other American judge. This time the judge did not side with the plaintiff.
The entire eDekka company terrorized the whole of 2014 with claims of online retailers, sellers of goods from coffee to shoes, with a single patent. A judge, while studying a patent, discovered that he describes "an abstract idea of ​​storing and marking information" and "routine tasks that a person can perform." EDekka itself claims that the patent “improves the functionality of the technology,” but the judge decided that there was not a single proof of this.
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The judge invited to the hearing all the defendants on the claims eDekka and decided the plaintiff to pay their fees to lawyers. For this, Gilstrap tentatively requested this data from all respondents. Most of the respondents spent from 13 to 16 thousand dollars to defend in court, and now eDekka will have to pay 390 thousand.
Austin Hansley (Austin Hansley), whose small law office in Texas also represented the second and third largest patent trolls in 2014, was trolling in the courts for eDekka, writes ARStechnica . Of all the cases of eDekka, this control filed hundreds of lawsuits, of which 87 - in one week .
The eDekka patent was issued by an entrepreneur and inventor Donald Hejna, who once sued Apple for infringing a patent related to changing the speed of watching a video without losing sound. Then his company Enounce claimed that the first gave such an opportunity to users for video in Adobe Flash.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/299106/
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