On Monday August 26, a federal jury reached a verdict in favor of Finnegan clients ABBYY Software and Lexmark, finding ABBYY’s “optical-character reader software didn’t infringe on three patents owned by Nuance Communications.” In 2008, Nuance sued for patent infringement in addition to trade dress infringement of its product packaging. After deliberating for less than a day, the jury decided that “Nuance had failed to prove any of its patent or trade dress claims by a preponderance of evidence.” In an interview with MLex, Finnegan partner Gerald F. Ivey, who argued on behalf of ABBYY said, “I think we had a consistent theme in the case, which had to do with innovation.” Finnegan represented ABBYY and Lexmark in this matter.
