Toshiba Corp. v. Imation Corp., No. 11-1204 (Fed. Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseOnce a user records all of the data on the DVD, the user may choose to "finalize" the DVD. A recordable DVD can be played in the drive in which it was recorded without finalization, but not on other recorders or conventional DVD players. A finalized DVD can be played on any standardized DVD player or drive. Toshiba accused defendants of infringing claims patents related to optical disc technology. The district court granted summary judgment for defendants, concluding that the use of unfinalized DVDs was a substantial non-infringing use and that both theories of indirect infringement – contributory and inducing infringement – fail if there are any substantial non-infringing uses. The Federal Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part. The district court correctly granted summary judgment of non-infringement as to contributory infringement of the asserted claims of one patent, but erred in granting summary judgment of non-infringement as to induced infringement of the asserted claims of that patent and in granting summary judgment of non-infringement of the other patent based on an erroneous claim construction.
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