Berkheimer v. Hewlett-Packard Company

  1. March 30, 2022

    HP Defeats Digital Patent Suit After Fed. Circ. Revival

    An Illinois federal judge has invalidated a data archival patent asserted against Hewlett-Packard four years after the Federal Circuit revived the suit and changed how patent eligibility is determined, finding the inventor's patent was indefinite.

  2. December 14, 2016

    HP Gets Inventor's Digital Archiving Patent Nixed Under Alice

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday granted judgment in favor of Hewlett-Packard Co. in a case in which an inventor sued the company for infringing a patent directed to a method for digitally archiving files, finding the asserted claims were invalid under Alice.