Leines

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RICHARD A. LEINES, No. 2:18-cv-00969-KJM-DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER HOMELAND VINYL PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant. 16 Plaintiff Richard Leines sues defendant Homeland Vinyl, Inc. (“Homeland”), alleging, among other things, Homeland’s “Gorilla Lock” product infringes a patent owned and developed by Leines. On September 30, 2019, the court conducted a claim construction hearing in accordance with Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370 (1996). Through this order, based on the hearing and on the record before it, the court construes the disputed words and phrases found in Claim 11 of Leines’ patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. 594,961 (“the ‘961 Patent”). I. BACKGROUND Leines and Homeland entered into a licensing agreement whereby Homeland could manufacture and sell certain products, called “Gorilla Lock” deck products, that are purportedly based on an invention Leines patented. Compl. ¶ 5. The patent…