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Northern District of California Judge William Alsup has granted summary judgment of noninfringement for Amazon in a case from inventor-controlled MasterObjects, Inc.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup held off on deciding Thursday whether to grant Amazon a win in MasterObjects Inc.'s infringement suit over autofill search-engine patents, and he appeared critical of Amazon attorneys' request to delay the upcoming trial, saying, "I think you lawyers are pampering yourself too much."
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 37 was rewritten in 2015. Before standard was party could mostly not be sanctioned for data loss due to routine, good faith operation. Rule didn’t capture reality of potential scenarios, provide requisite guidance to attorneys, parties.
A California federal judge on Monday declined to disqualify a senior in-house patent lawyer at Amazon from infringement litigation brought by MasterObjects Inc., though the judge did say that the attorney's failure to bring up that he previously worked at a firm that represented MasterObjects "undermines" his credibility somewhat.
A California federal judge ordered a senior in-house patent lawyer at Amazon who is leading the company's defense of claims of infringement of MasterObjects Inc.'s search engine patent to be deposed regarding a potential conflict of interest that MasterObjects accuses him of trying to hide.