Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., No. 17-1540 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 18, 2018)

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Defendant Zinus, Inc. , appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of plaintiff Cap Export, LLC , and third- party defendants Abraham Amouyal and 4Moda Corp. (collectively, “Cap Export”) by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The district court ordered Zinus, the owner of U.S. Patent No. 8,9 31,123 (“the ’123 patent”) , to file a motion for summary judgment o f validity of that patent. Following briefing, the court held two of the asserted claims of Zinus’s patent invalid for obviousness.