8287320

Cases: 4
Active: 0; 4 closed
Filed: 2013
Top venue: Fed. Cir.; 2 cases

PPC Broadband, Inc. (f/k/a John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.) v. Corning Gilbert Inc. (later Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC)

stayed/rolled into Corning IPRs; district-court disposition of '353 count not confirmed

Docket:: 5:12-cv-00911-GLS-DEP
Court:: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Patents:8313353 8192237 8287320 8323060

π PPC Broadband, Inc. (f/k/a John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.)Δ Corning Gilbert Inc. (later Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC)

PPC Broadband sued Corning Gilbert in the Northern District of New York asserting multiple patents; the '353 patent was added by the Second Amended Complaint served December 4, 2012. The '353 claims were resolved through IPR2013-00343 and IPR2013-00345 rather than a confirmed separate district-court judgment.

Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC v. PPC Broadband, Inc.

settlement

Docket:: IPR2013-00346
Court:: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
Filed:: 2013-06-10

Patents:8287320

π Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC Δ PPC Broadband, Inc.

Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC petitioned for inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 8,287,320 against PPC Broadband, Inc. The proceeding concerned claims 1-32 of the '320 patent and is recorded as a settlement.

PPC Broadband, Inc. v. Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC

affirmed-in-part, vacated-in-part, remanded

Docket:: 2015-1361
Court:: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Terminated:: 2016-02-22

Patents:8287320

π PPC Broadband, Inc.Δ Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC

Appeal No. 2015-1361, consolidated from IPR2013-00340, -00345, -00346, and -00347. The Federal Circuit affirmed the unpatentability of '320 claims 1-7, 9-15, 17-30, and 32, vacated the unpatentability determination as to claims 8, 16, and 31, and remanded.

PPC Broadband, Inc. v. Iancu

decided

Docket:: 17-1362
Court:: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Terminated:: 2018-07-03

Patents:8287320

π PPC Broadband, Inc.Δ Iancu

Appeal from the Board's decisions on remand in the '320 patent inter partes reviews. The Federal Circuit rejected the Board's reasoning on whether Tatsuzuki's disc-shaped spring would maintain consistent electrical continuity; Corning had settled with PPC and withdrew as a party.