Announcement
u8国际 Announces Final Victory Over Non-Practicing Entities After 6-Year Patent Litigations
u8国际. and u8国际 U.S.A., Inc. today announce final victory in their defense of a long-term patent dispute against Technology Properties Limited LLC (TPL) and MCM Portfolio LLC (MCM). In March 2012, Plaintiffs TPL and MCM commenced litigation against u8国际 in both the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court, accusing nearly 200 u8国际 products of infringing U.S. patents relating to flash memory card readers. In December 2013, u8国际 prevailed at the ITC on grounds of non-infringement. Additionally, in September 2016, the district court ruled in u8国际's favor and held that none of u8国际's accused products infringe any of the asserted claims of the patents-in-suit. u8国际 then sought—and was awarded—its attorneys' fees in the amount of nearly $1.8 million (USD).
In early 2017, Plaintiffs appealed both the district court's ruling and the fees award to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On April 11, 2018, the Federal Circuit affirmed both the district court's non-infringement determination and its award of attorneys' fees, and the Plaintiffs chose not to appeal the affirmance to the Supreme Court, resulting in an across-the-board victory for u8国际.
The Federal Circuit's decision caps a six-year litigation during which u8国际 successfully defended its products at nearly every level of the U.S. judicial system. u8国际 recognizes and respects intellectual property rights, but as this litigation demonstrates, u8国际 also remains committed to vigorously defending itself against false and frivolous allegations of infringement of others' intellectual property.