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Ancora Technologies, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., No. 13-1378 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 3, 2014)

Affirmed in Part
Claim Construction Indefiniteness
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 13-1378
Decided
March 3, 2014
Judge
Taranto, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
15 pages

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Ancora Technologies, Inc. , owns U.S. Patent No. 6,411,941, which claims methods for verifying that a software program on a computer is not there without authorization, but is licensed to be there. In December 2010, Ancora sued Apple Inc. , alleging that products running Apple’s iOS operating system infringed the ’941 patent. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California construed the claims. Ancora Techs., Inc. v. Apple Inc. , 11-CV-06357, 2012 WL 6738761 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 31, 2012).

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