Litigation
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. et al. v. Acacia Research Corp. et al.
dismissed under first-to-file; affirmed on appeal8:12-cv-00511; 13-1090
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- Filed
- 2012-04-04
- Terminated
- 2013-12-03
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Plaintiffs (2)
Summary
Futurewei and Huawei Device USA filed a declaratory-judgment action against Acacia, SmartPhone, and Access, seeking non-infringement and invalidity declarations on the same five patents-at-issue in the Texas suit, which include U.S. Patent 6,928,300. The C.D. Cal. complaint was dismissed under the first-to-file rule in favor of the earlier Texas action; the Federal Circuit affirmed in Futurewei Technologies, Inc. v. Acacia Research Corp., 737 F.3d 704 (Fed. Cir. 2013).
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