July 09, 2015
A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday explored the test for when federal judges should stay patent infringement suits during America Invents Act reviews, asking Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and plaintiff Smartflash LLC to what degree previous activity in the case favors plowing forward with district court litigation.
June 25, 2015
Apple Inc. on Wednesday urged a Texas federal judge to reconsider his earlier rulings that Smartflash LLC's media storage patents are not indefinite in light of a recent Federal Circuit decision that provided a new way to attack broad patents as indefinite.
June 01, 2015
A Texas judge has refused to halt Smartflash LLC's media storage patent cases against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, while the patents are reviewed under the America Invents Act, leading the tech giants to appeal swiftly Monday.
April 03, 2015
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to review four patents that Smartflash LLC has asserted against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., including ones that Apple has been ordered to pay $533 million for infringing, finding that the patents likely fail the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.
February 13, 2015
A Texas federal judge on Friday refused to invalidate a series of six anti-piracy patents Smartflash LLC accused Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. of infringing, ruling the claims were patent-eligible under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice standard.