United States Federal Circuit

In plaintiff's suit for infringement of its patent, related to methods and systems for performing optical character recognition, recognizing documents, and managing documents, district court's judgment is reversed in part, vacated in part and remanded where: 1) district court's dismissal of defendant-Abby Production for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed because defendant purposefully directed activities at residents of California, because plaintiff's claims for patent infringement arise out of those activities, and because the assertion of personal jurisdiction is reasonable and fair; 2) district court's dismissal of defendant Abby Software is vacated and remanded as the record calls for further discovery on the jurisdiction questions; and 3) district court erred in dismissing the defendants for improper service of process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2010
• Published 11/12/2010

Judges

• RADER

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. CRAIG TYLER, MATTHEW M. WAWRZYN