Foley Represents Green Shades Software Inc. in Patent Trial Victory

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that it secured victory for Green Shades Software Inc. (Green Shades) in its successful trial defense against accusations of patent infringement. After seven years of litigation, a Florida federal jury’s findings on Monday cleared Green Shades of all claims of patent infringement and found that the patent claims at issue were not valid to begin with.

Green Shades was sued in 2015 by the plaintiff Aatrix Software, Inc. (Aatrix), which alleged that several of Green Shades’ products had since 2007 infringed upon a pair of their data manipulation patents. At trial, Aatrix demanded between $22 and $35 million dollars from Green Shades for the alleged infringements.

Après plus de deux semaines de procès, le jury a conclu à l'unanimité qu'aucun produit de Green Shades ne violait les droits de brevet d'Aatrix et que, selon des preuves claires et convaincantes, Aatrix avait déposé à tort sa demande de brevet plus d'un an après avoir commercialisé son invention. En conséquence, ses revendications de brevet ont été jugées invalides en vertu de la règle dite « on-sale bar », qui interdit les brevets sur les inventions commercialisées plus d'un an avant le dépôt de la demande de brevet.

The Foley trial team was led by Partners Natalie Hirt Adams and Jason Mehta.