Big Verdicts Are Back In Texas – Patent Holder Receives Delayed $113 Million

(Thursday, September 19, 2013 – Tyler, TX): A Tyler jury found Defendant Becton, Dickinson, and Co. (BD) liable against Retractable Technologies, Inc. (RTI) for $113 million. This trial put to rest a lawsuit that Plaintiff RTI initially filed in 2007. During the process of litigation, the lawsuit was bifurcated into two parts: a patent suit and an anti-trust suit. In 2009, a jury awarded RTI $5 million from BD for patent infringement, which the Federal Circuit confirmed in part and overruled...

Blue Spike settles with Cognitive Networks (formerly TV Interactive Systems).

(Monday, June 10, 2013 – Tyler, TX): Blue Spike recently reached another favorable settlement, this time with a major player in the media content recognition industry. Cognitive Networks has agreed to settle Blue Spike’s claims that it infringed Blue Spike’s foundational abstraction patents. Cognitive Networks, formally TV Interactive Systems, is a “market-leading content recognition service provider” that informs broadcasters what viewers are watching on their smart televisions.*...

Garteiser Honea opens office in Tyler, Texas.

(Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Tyler, TX): Garteiser Honea announces the opening of its Tyler, TX office. The San Francisco Bay firm is pleased to expand its top-notch intellectual property and business legal services to the Texas market. Although the firm currently litigates a number of cases in Texas, it believes that an office in Tyler will only strengthen its ability to provide clients with high quality results. Both Randall Garteiser and Christopher Honea, the firm’s named partners, have...

Cognitive Networks

formerly TV Interactive Systems, has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex May 29, 2013).  Cognitive Networks was represented by Perkins Coie...

BioLink Solutions

has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Apr 5, 2013)....

Daon

has agreed to a resolution with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Mar 6, 2013).  Daon was represented by Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing,...

Blue Spike Settles with Yahoo! and NEC.

(Monday, March 4, 2013 – Tyler, TX): Blue Spike, LLC continues to make its mark after inking two favorable settlements with major corporations. Yahoo! and NEC Corporation, listed among the Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 500 respectively, recently agreed to settle the software company’s claims they infringed Blue Spike’s state-of-the-art abstraction patents. Blue Spike’s founder, Scott Moskowitz, is pleased with the results. Moskowitz is CEO of the Texas-based software company and the...

Yahoo!

has agreed to a resolution with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Feb 28, 2013).  Tygart Technologies was represented by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres, & Friedman LLP and Findlay Craft...

NEC

has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Feb 28, 2013).  NEC was represented by Ireland, Carrol & Kelley,...

Integrated Biometrics

has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Jan 31, 2013)....

Garteiser Honea Wins Battle to Hold Russian Patent Infringer Accountable – In Texas.

(Monday, January 14, 2013 – Marshall, Texas): Software and service provider Blue Spike, LLC successfully defended a motion to quash brought by a Russian Biometric Company, Biolink Solutions Ltd. To save its client money, Garteiser Honea researched and discovered that it could accomplish service on the company through the Texas Secretary of State. After all, the company was alleged to be selling products in Texas, and these products collect personal data on Texas residents. Here, Garteiser...

BIO-key International

has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Jan 5, 2013).  BIO-key was represented by Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP and Findlay Craft...

Peterson v. Harley-Davidson

“It is with great pleasure I write this letter of recommendation for the law offices of Garteiser Honea. For over twenty years I tried both by myself and through numerous other law firms to bring to closure my copyright dispute with The Harley-Davidson Motor Company. I did not, however, possess the necessary funds and talent to take this to settlement. And as such, I feared it would languish until my demise. Little did I know that about a year ago a chance referral would bring me to these...

Cross Match Technologies

has agreed to a settlement and licensing agreement with Blue Spike LLC, represented by Garteiser Honea, in Blue Spike LLC v Texas Instruments, et al., Case No. 6:12-cv-00499-LED (E.D. Tex Nov 9, 2012).  Cross Match was represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and Potter Minton,...

Exygy

Represented by Garteiser Honea, tech company Exygy LLC, won its two-day arbitration involving a breach of contract where the other side was represented by Perkins Coie in American Arbitration Association Case No. 74 117 E 362 12 NOLG (Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 3,...

Harley-Davidson

has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit to the satisfaction of Garteiser Honea’s client, free-lance artist Wayne Peterson, known for his popular “Live to Ride” logos. The Harley-Davidson Motor Company was represented by Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP and Bryan Cave LLP in Peterson v. Harley-Davidson Inc., et al., Case No. 2:12-cv-00381 (E.D. WI Oct. 21,...

ConvaTec, Inc.

Settled a patent dispute related to medical equipment technology against ConvaTec, Inc., who was represented by Brinks Hofer Gilson &...

Energizer

has entered into a settlement agreement with Garteiser Honea’s client (2011).  Energizer was represented by Brinks Hofer Gilson &...

Garteiser Honea Defeats Perkins Coie in Heated Arbitration.

(Saturday, November 3, 2012 – Palo Alto, CA)  An arbitrator made a determination in a contractual dispute between Garteiser Honea’s client, Exygy, LLC, and GreatNonprofits, represented by Perkins Coie.  The verdict: it’s another win for a Garteiser Honea client. The dispute arose over failure to pay on a contract for custom software development.  When GreatNonprofit’s CEO, a graduate of Harvard Law and former member of the California Bar, called in a favor with internationally...

C.R. Bard, Inc.

has settled in a patent dispute case against a Garteiser Honea client.  C.R. Bard was was represented by Capshaw DeRieux...

Koregon Enterprises, Inc.

has entered into a settlement agreement with a Garteiser Honea client. Koregon Enterprises, Inc. was represented by Chernoff Vilhauer,...

DenTek Oral Care, Inc.

has entered into a patent dispute settlement concerning a endodontic device with a Garteiser Honea client.  DenTek Oral Care, Inc. was represented by Proskauer Rose...

Hollister Inc.

has settled a patent dispute case with a Garteiser Honea client.  Hollister was represented by Patton, Tidwell & Schroeder,...

Connoisseurs Products Corporation

has entered into a settlement agreement with a Garteiser Honea client. Connoisseurs Products Corporation was represented by Nelson, Kinder + Mosseau,...

Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc. and Pactiv Corporation

have entered into a settlement agreement with a Garteiser Honea client. Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc., and Pactiv Corporation were both represented by Kaye Scholer...

Fisher & Paykel Appliances, Inc.

have entered into a settlement agreement with a Garteiser Honea client relating to a washing machine technology. Fisher & Paykel Appliances, Inc. was represented by Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear...

Playboy Enterprises

has entered into a settlement agreement in a wrongful termination case with a Garteiser Honea client. Playboy was represented by Morgan...

Smith & Nephew, Inc.

has entered into a settlement agreement with a Garteiser Honea client relating to medical equipment technology. Smith & Nephew , Inc. was represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan,...

Ian Ramage

Ian Ramage is “Of Counsel” in the firm’s Intellectual Property (“IP”) Group. He has been practicing IP litigation for over ten years, representing companies such as Apple, AMD, and News Corp. He has a degree in computer engineering and clients appreciate his understanding of their business needs that Ian gained while he was employed by IBM, Northern Telecom, and Hughes Aircraft prior to law school. He has substantial experience enforcing the Digital Millennium...

Christopher Honea

Christopher Honea is a Partner at the firm and co-chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property (“IP”) Litigation Group. The IP Litigation Group handles disputes involving patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer, and unfair competition law. For example, in 2012, he handled disputes for clients including Blue Earth, Blue Spike, Extenda Communications, and Wisteria Trading Company. Previously, Chris was in-house counsel for a group of start-up companies, including...