Teknowledge Corp. v. Cellco Partnership

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY

On May 15, 2009, the Court held a hearing on defendant’s motion for summary judgment that all asserted claims of the '175 patent are invalid. For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS defendant’s motion.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Teknowledge Corporation alleges that defendant Célico Partnership d/b/a/ Verizon Wireless infringes U.S. Patent No. 6,029,175 (“the '175 patent”), titled “Automatic Retrieval of Changed Files By A Network Software Agent.” The '175 patent, in general, relates to methods and systems for specifying interest in objects on a distributed network such as the Internet. More specifically, some of the claims of the '175 patent relate to alerts technology for automatically providing notification of updates or modifications to web pages or other web content. Plaintiff claims that defendant provides such alerts products and/or services, and alleges that defendant has infringed at least claims 1, 46, 53, 55 and 64 by developing, providing, marketing, and/or selling such alerts products and/or services. Defendant denies infringement, and also contends that the asserted claims are invalid and/or…