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Nuance Communications v. Abbyy USA Software House, No. 14-1629 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 22, 2016)

Affirmed
Non-Infringement Claim Construction
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 14-1629
Also Docketed
No. 14-1630 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
February 22, 2016
Judge
Prost, C.J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
15 pages

From the Opinion

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This case involves optical character recognition (“OCR”) technology. Nuance Communications Inc. (“N u- ance”) sued ABBYY USA Software House, Inc., ABBYY Software, Ltd., ABBYY Production LLC, and Lexmark International, Inc. (collectively, “ABBYY”) in the United Stated District Court for the Northern District of Califo r- nia. Although Nuance asserted eight pa tents in its com- plaint, before trial Nuance narrowed its case and ultimately only tried three patents : U.S. Patent Nos.

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