For the second time in four years, a team of Cooley lawyers led by Michael Rhodes has won a patent infringement trial for Facebook Inc. This time, Cooley trounced a nonpracticing entity represented by well-known trial lawyer Thomas Melsheimer of Fish & Richardson.
A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., on Friday returned a verdict that Facebook doesn’t infringe two patents owned by Rembrandt Social Media, a subsidiary of Rembrandt IP Management. The jury also invalidated the two patents, which cover the idea of a “Web page diary” that allows users to share personal information and third-party content with friends.
