Federal Judiciary

Marshall Jury Finds for Defendant Google - No Infringement and Patents Invalid

By Michael C. Smith

Today a Marshall jury in Judge Everingham's court in Function Media v. Google, 2:07cv279, found that defendant Google's AdSense products did not infringe the nine asserted claims of Function Media's two patents.  The jury further found that Google had shown by clear and convincing evidence that all of the asserted claims of both patents were invalid as both obvious and as anticipated.   

That's a good start to the year for patent defendants in the Eastern District - a JMOL at the close of the plaintiff's case two weeks ago in our Southwest EFuels v. 3T case, and a sweepstakes in this one.  Meanwhile, up in Texarkana the jury in the third case heads towards another verdict this week, and jury selection for the February docket of cases is only six days away...

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).