Eastern District of Texas Invalidates Patent Asserted Against Finnegan Client FedEx Corporation

Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas has issued an order granting judgment in FedEx’s favor and invalidating claims of a patent asserted by BarTex Research, LLC. BarTex alleged that FedEx’s shipping labels infringed its patent related to bar codes. Finnegan represented FedEx in this matter and also in an inter partes reexamination of the same BarTex patent. Although the reexamination has not yet concluded, the Patent Office has rejected all claims of BarTex’s patent.