{"id":14837,"date":"2023-04-18T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/google-wins-appeal-of\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:24:38","slug":"google-wins-appeal-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/google-wins-appeal-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wins appeal of $20 million US patent verdict over Chrome technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Alphabet&#8217;s Google LLC on Tuesday convinced a U.S. appeals court to cancel three anti-malware patents at the heart of a Texas jury&#8217;s $20 million infringement verdict against the company.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman&#8217;s patents were invalid because they contained inventions that were not included in an earlier version of the patent.<\/p>\n<p>Google spokesperson Jos\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda said the company appreciated the decision. Representatives for the inventors did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Cioffi and the late Rozman&#8217;s daughters sued Google in East Texas federal court in 2013, alleging anti-malware functions in Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser infringed their patents for technology that prevents malware from accessing critical files on a computer.<\/p>\n<p>A jury decided in 2017 that Google infringed the patents and awarded the plaintiffs $20 million plus ongoing royalties, which their attorney said at the time were expected to total about $7 million per year for the next nine years.<\/p>\n<p>But the Federal Circuit said Tuesday that all of the patents were invalid. The three patents were reissued from an earlier anti-malware patent, and federal law required the new patents to cover the same invention as the first, the unanimous three-judge panel concluded. <\/p>\n<p>The appeals court said the new patents outlined technology specific to web browsers that the first patent did not mention.<\/p>\n<p>The case is Cioffi v. Google LLC, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 18-1049.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/google-wins-appeal-of\/file-photo-google-logo-on-office-building-in-irvine-california-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0OF-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0OF-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet&#8217;s Google LLC on Tuesday convinced a U.S. appeals court to cancel three anti-malware patents at the heart of a Texas jury&#8217;s $20 million infringement verdict against the company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman&#8217;s patents were invalid because they contained inventions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-14837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0OF-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14858,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}