NEWS RELEASE
October 1, 2009
(Westfield, NJ)
Contact:
Ray P. Janeczek
Direct Dial: 908.518.6369 or
rjaneczek@ldlkm.com
Four Sony entities were sued in the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) alleging that various VAIO and PlayStation products capable of playing Blu-ray Discs infringed claims of a patent owned by a patent holding company, Orinda Intellectual Properties USA Holding Group, Inc. On behalf of Sony we obtained a rare win on a motion to transfer the lawsuit from the EDTX to the Northern District of California (NDCA) by submitting evidence establishing that the balance of various private and public factors clearly supported Sony's position. The EDTX court issued its order on September 29, 2009 explaining why Federal Circuit and Fifth Circuit law and the evidence presented by Sony established that the NDCA was clearly a more convenient forum for the patent dispute than the EDTX selected by the plaintiff.
Click on the following link if you would like to obtain a copy of the transfer order.
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