2014
DeLorme Wins Summary Judgment Invalidating Patent
On November 19, 2014, Judge Leonie Brinkema, of the Eastern District of Virginia, entered summary judgment in favor of DeLorme Publishing Company and DeLorme inReach LLC, represented by Peter J. Brann, David Swetnam–Burland, and Stacy O. Stitham, in a long–running patent dispute with BriarTek IP, Inc. After BriarTek asserted that DeLorme’s popular inReach devices infringed its patent, DeLorme filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a ruling that BriarTek’s patent was invalid and that DeLorme did not infringe it. In her order, Judge Brinkema concluded that the BriarTek patent is invalid because the patent’s claims were anticipated and made obvious by prior art cited by DeLorme in its summary judgment motion.
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