January 20, 2016
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Tuesday awarded $390,829 in attorneys' fees to ASICS America, Mars and 22 other companies that nonpracticing entity eDekka had accused of infringing its Web shopping cart patent, after finding the patent to be "clearly" invalid under Alice.
November 06, 2015
Mars Inc., Jockey International Inc. and other companies accused of infringing an eDekka LLC shopping cart patent invalidated by Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap urged him Thursday to award them attorneys' fees, saying the suits had no basis and should never have been brought.
October 21, 2015
EDekka LLC, one of the most prolific filers of infringement litigation, will appeal a Texas federal judge's ruling last month that its Web shopping cart patent was invalid because it claimed only abstract ideas, according to a Wednesday filing.
September 25, 2015
The Eastern District of Texas' recent invalidation of a Web shopping cart patent held by eDekka LLC, one of the most prolific filers of infringement litigation, may give defendants more ammunition in a jurisdiction that tends to view the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision narrowly, but won't deter plaintiffs from launching patent campaigns in the Lone Star State, experts say.