Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC, No. 16-1795 (Fed. Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseIV’s patent issued in 2010, from a series of continuing applications first filed in 1997 and is titled “File Transfer System for Direct Transfer Between Computers.” The patents broadly relate to transferring computer files electronically from one location to another, and more particularly to electronic transfer of computer files directly between two or more computers or computing devices. IV sued Motorola for infringement. A jury found the asserted claims infringed and not invalid. The Federal Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the jury’s verdict regarding the validity of certain claims, but concluded that substantial evidence did not support the jury’s verdict of direct infringement of another claim. Since a finding of direct infringement is a predicate to any finding of indirect infringement, the court reversed all of the infringement findings with respect to that patent.
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