RasterOps
RasterOps v. Radius, Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
Brazil, J.
OPINION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff RasterOps filed the above-captioned action on November 23, 1993, alleging that defendant Radius has infringed and continues to infringe RasterOps’ patent rights in United States patent No. 5,229,852 (the “ ’852 patent”). RasterOps simultaneously filed an action against SuperMac, RasterOps v. SuperMajc Technology, Inc., Civil Action No. 93-4161 WHO, alleging that SuperMac also infringed the ’852 patent.
RasterOps filed the instant motion for a preliminary injunction on April 14, 1994. Initially, RasterOps moved the court to “issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendant Radius from making, using or selling its VideoVision™ and VideoVision Studio™ products and any other products which infringes [sic] the claims” of the ’852 patent. Memo, in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction, filed under seal April 14, 1994, at 23. In its reply papers (filed under seal July 29,1994—one week before the hearing on the motion), however, RasterOps modified the scope of its motion, and at the hearing on the motion, counsel confirmed that for purposes of this motion, RasterOps alleges that only the…