United States Federal Circuit

In this patent infringement litigation, plaintiff alleges infringement of various claims of seven patents. The asserted claims generally address systems and methods for handling information and providing it to wireless devices, such as mobile phones. Judgment of the district court granting summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of defendants is reversed, where: 1) plaintiff's licensing of its patents to one group does not terminate its patent rights against another group when that other group's interaction with the patent rights merely contemplates the first licensed-group's use; and 2) the exhaustion doctrine's lifting of patent law restrictions on a licensed product has never been applied to terminate patent rights in such complementary activities or goods, as in these circumstances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2015
• Published 02/10/2015

Judges

• Taranto

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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