August 12, 2020
Nikon Corp., Canon Inc. and other digital camera manufacturers in a long-running multidistrict patent infringement suit appeared to have hit a stumbling block Wednesday after a D.C. federal judge cast strong doubts on their request for an order finding that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board had previously invalidated similar claims asserted in the case.
October 26, 2016
Digital camera manufacturers urged a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to look at the invention a German patent holding company says they infringed in consolidated multidistrict ligation as based around software rather than hardware, in an effort to argue there's no innovation here worth protecting.
November 14, 2013
A Washington federal judge on Thursday entered final judgment of noninfringement of all patents in the first wave of lawsuits in multidistrict litigation brought by a German patent-holding company against digital camera makers, including Nikon Corp., and certified the judgment for appeal.
July 01, 2013
Digital camera makers including Nikon Corp. scored a big win Monday when a Washington federal judge handed summary judgment rulings that effectively clear all of the accused camera and recording devices from patent infringement claims in multidistrict litigation over a communication interface.
March 19, 2013
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday threw out patent infringement claims in a multidistrict litigation against Canon Inc., Eastman Kodak Co. and other camera companies, ruling that camera memory cards are stand-alone technology separate from Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG's patented "interface devices" technology.
November 21, 2012
A Washington federal judge nixed claims Tuesday in multidistrict litigation over 47 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. products that allegedly infringe two Papst Licensing Gmbh & Co. KG's patents covering digital camera interfaces, after Papst, which only sued Samsung's digital camera unit, was barred from adding Samsung to the case.