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Princeton Digital Image Corp. v. Office Depot Inc., No. 17-2597 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 22, 2019)

Dismissed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 17-2597
Also Docketed
No. 17-2598, No. 17-2600, No. 17-2602, No. 17-2605, No. 17-2606, No. 17-2609, No. 17-2611, No. 17-2612, No. 17-2627, No. 17-2628, No. 17-2629, No. 17-2630, No. 17-2631, No. 17-2632, No. 17-2633, No. 17-2634, No. 18-1006 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
January 22, 2019
Judge
Dyk, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
15 pages

From the Opinion

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The parties appeal and cross appeal from various ru l- ings by the U.S. District Court for the District of Del a- ware in a patent and breach of contract dispute. Because there was no final decision on the merits , we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. BACKGROUND Princeton Digital Image Corporation (“PDIC”) owns U.S. Patent No. 4,813,056 (“the ’ 056 patent”), which relates to methods for encoding image data and allegedly covers the encoding of digital images in the JPEG file format. In June 2011, PDIC licensed the ’ 056 patent to Adobe, Inc.