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01.25.17
The U.S. arm of Chinese telecom company ZTE Inc. has agreed to settle a patent infringement case with e-Watch Inc. related to two cell phone camera technology patents, according to Law360 (subscription required). The two companies last week filed a joint motion in the Eastern District of Texas to dismiss the case. Though the motion did not include financial details, it specified that each company will pay its own legal costs and related expenses.
The settlement follows a number of earlier case disposals Pillsbury has achieved for ZTE, including a recent win on the pleadings in Content Aggregation Solutions v. ZTE Corporation et al., in the Southern District of California. In that case, ZTE was granted a motion to dismiss prior to answering the complaint. After ZTE filed its motion, an additional five defendants in companion cases filed similar motions. All were granted after a judge found that the asserted patent was directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under the new standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in Alice v. CLS Bank in June 2014.
ZTE is represented by a team of Pillsbury lawyers comprising Intellectual Property partners Steven Moore, Callie Bjurstrom and Nicole Cunningham, along with associate Matthew Stephens.