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Intellectual Ventures II LLC
FedEx Corp.
A panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) decision that Finnegan client FedEx invalidated claims of an Intellectual Ventures (IV) patent. IV argued on appeal that the Board’s analysis included three independent errors and that inter partes reviews (IPRs) violated due process, but the panel summarily rejected all of IV’s arguments via a Rule 36 affirmance without opinion.
FedEx’s victory comes on the heels of its Eastern District of Texas and PTAB victories, where IV accused FedEx of infringing five different patents and sought nearly $100 million in damages. Only four of the five patents made it to trial, where the jury found that FedEx did not infringe any patent claim and that all asserted claims of three of the four trial patents were invalid, and IV did not appeal. The patent whose claims were invalidated in the 18-2373 appeal at the Federal Circuit had been the only patent to survive the district court trial. At the PTAB, FedEx also invalidated claims in three of the other four patents, and IV did not appeal those decisions.
Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. FedEx Corp., 18-2373, Fed. Cir., Judges Lourie, Reyna, Hughes
FedEx Corp. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2017-00787, PTAB, Judges McKone, Parvis, Hudalla
FedEx Corp. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC
FedEx Corp.
Eastern District of Texas invalidates patent asserted against Finnegan client FedEx Corporation
FedEx Corp.
R2 Solutions LLC v. FedEx Corporate Services, Inc.
FedEx Corporate Services, Inc.,
Intellectual Ventures I LLC et al. v. Toyota Motor Corp. et al.
Toyota Motor Corp. et al.
Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. et al.
Toyota Motor Corporation et al.
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