Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. v. HTC America, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELECTRONIC SCRIPTING PRODUCTS,

INC., Case No. 17-cv-05806-RS

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF NON-

INFRINGEMENT

HTC AMERICA INC.,

Defendant.

15 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. (“ESPI”) is the owner of United States Patent No. 9,235,934, entitled “Computer Interface Employing a Wearable Article with an Absolute Pose Detection Component.” The accused devices are headsets made by defendant HTC America, Inc. to be used in conjunction with virtual reality systems sold by former co-defendant Valve, which has been voluntarily dismissed. The “wearable article” described in the patent, and the accused headsets, are both intended to permit a virtual reality system to determine where a human user is and in what direction he or she is looking, so that the user’s movements and actions can be recreated within the virtual…