another win on patent disputeBlackBerry Ltd. (BB), the Canadian maker of wireless communication devices, didn’t infringe patents belonging to a Michigan company, a federal appeals court ruled.
St. ClairIntellectual PropertyConsultants Inc. sued BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd., in federal court inDelawarein June 2008, alleging that four patents related to digital cameras in mobile telephones were infringed.
The court entered a judgment against St. Clair in September 2012. St. Clair appealed.
TheU.S. Court of Appealsfor the Federal Circuit affirmed the trial court’s ruling in a judgment delivered without comment.
The appellate case is St. Clair Intellectual Property v. Matsu*****a Electrical Industries, 12-1652, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The lower court case is St. Clair Intellectual Property v. Research In Motion Ltd.,08-cv-00371S, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington).