Finnegan achieves favorable settlement for Chinese software company

Nuance filed a complaint against Shanghai Hanxiang (CooTek) Information Technology Co., Ltd. in the ITC, accusing CooTek of infringing five patents generally related to software keyboard for mobile devices. CooTek took a targeted approach, which resulted in Nuance dropping one patent after receiving CooTek's prior art and obtaining an early finding of noninfringement for certain designs on three other patents. As the parties approached trial, the dispute focused on the fifth patent, which had the shortest remaining life. CooTek's streamlined approach proved to be both effective and efficient. Finnegan helped negotiate a favorable settlement, which protected CooTek’s U.S. market and further saved CooTek the expense of a trial.