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VR Optics, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc., No. 21-1900 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 16, 2023)

Affirmed
Summary Judgment Invalidity (§ 102/§ 103)
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 21-1900
Also Docketed
No. 21-1901, No. 21-1918 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
February 16, 2023
Judge
Stoll, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
29 pages

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In 2012, Peloton Interactive, Inc. (Peloton) entered a contract with Villency Design Group, LLC (VDG) under which VDG would design, develop, and manufacture what would become Peloton’s stationary exercise bike. The par- ties agreed to another, similar contract in 2014. Before the 2014 contract expired, Eric Villency and Joseph Coffey (the sole owners and members of VDG) learned of a patent that the Peloton bike might infringe. They formed a new com- pany, VR Optics, LLC, which acquired that patent.

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