NEWS RELEASE
August 11, 2010
(Westfield, NJ)
Contact:
Ray P. Janeczek
Direct Dial: 908.518.6369 or
rjaneczek@ldlkm.com
In September 2009, we helped Sony win a transfer of a patent infringement lawsuit from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of California. The lawsuit alleges that various of Sony's VAIO pc and PlayStation products capable of playing Blu-ray Discs infringed claims of a patent owned by a patent holding company, Orinda Intellectual Properties USA Holding Group, Inc.
On August 11, 2010, the District Court for the Northern District of California granted Sony's motion to stay the lawsuit pending reexamination of Orinda's asserted patent. Sony explained in its motion that the asserted patent is believed to be invalid as indicated in the PTO's grant in April 2010 of Sony's reexamination request, which identified various substantial new questions of patentability based on the prior art. The Northern District of California's opinion and order held that Sony proved that a stay of the proceeding was warranted because: (1) the lawsuit was at an early procedural stage; (2) reexamination is likely to simplify or moot the lawsuit; and (3) Orinda was not likely to be unduly prejudiced by the stay.
Click here if you would like to obtain a copy of the transfer order.
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