“The company — about which Google hasn’t indexed anything except for a few references to this patent suit — holds a user interface patent and yesterday filed a complaint with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, asserting it against 11 defendants: Apple, the top four Android device makers — Motorola, Samsung (two different Samsung entities are named), HTC, LG –, Nokia, Adobe, Palm, Opera and Quickoffice,” FOSS Patents reports. “The company seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages for what it claims to be infringements of US Patent No. 7,171,625 on ‘double-clicking a point-and-click user interface apparatus to enable a new interaction with content represented by an active visual display element.”
MacDailyNews Take: Rocket docket.
FOSS Patents reports, “The application was filed on 18 June 2002 and assigned to Actify, a San Francisco-based software company specialized in computer-aided design (CAD). The nature of the relationship between Actify and Hopewell Culture & Design is unclear at this stage.”
Full article with a list of the accused products here.
MacDailyNews Take: Prior art. Case closed. Next?
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