Judge Ronald Gould, U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
The Ninth Circuit ruled that both suits by Media Rights Technologies were based on the same nucleus of facts about alleged software misappropriation. That precludes all copyright claims that accrued before the filing of a 2013 patent suit.
May 03, 2019 at 12:30 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
An unsuccessful patent litigant can be precluded from bringing copyright claims that arise from the same allegations of IP theft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
The court ruled that Media Rights Technologies Inc. (MRT) cannot sue Microsoft Corp. for copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations that could have been included in its 2013 patent suit against the tech giant.
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