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It was a slow week at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) with just 18 new petitions—all inter partes reviews (IPRs); in district court, a slightly below average 54 new patent filings and 48 terminations rounded out the count.
Tech your username December 23, 2020 Japan’s Canon Inc. has asked the Western District of Texas to declare that a patent held by Optimum Imaging Technologies LLC (OIT) is unenforceable due to inequitable conduct during its prosecution. The patent-in-suit, U.S. Patent No. 10,873,685 (the ’685 patent ) was reportedly issued on Tuesday, December 22. Canon’s lawsuit comes after OIT sued it for infringement of two related patents concerning technology correcting video image aberrations. That action allegedly implicates Canon’s entire line of digital still and video cameras. Canon’s comp...