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Below are some recent successes by the firm’s Virginia IP litigators:
Troutman Sanders Defends Twitter in Patent Litigation
Robert Angle and Dabney Carr are assisting in the defense of Twitter, Inc., in a patent infringement action involving a patent for creating a “virtual interactive community.” Plaintiff seeks a “reasonably royalty” of $20 to $25 million dollars as well as an injunction against the continued use of Twitter’s “Interests” feature. The case is set for trial in October, 2012.
Troutman Sanders Defends Baby Stroller and Golf Equipment Intellectual Property
Robert Angle and Matt Osborne represent Dynamic Brands, owner of the Baby Jogger Company – maker of the award winning City Mini® - the Bag Boy Company, and several other golf equipment companies, in all aspects of their intellectual property. In 2011, they represented Bag Boy in three pate
nt infringement and false patent marking cases, defended a trademark infringement action involving Baby Jogger and handled two related opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Troutman Sanders Defeats Medical Device Patent Infringement Action
Dabney Carr helped Integrated Medical Systems, a leader in the repair of surgical endoscopes, defeat a patent infringement action brought by one of the world’s largest manufacturers of surgical endoscopes. Troutman Sanders successfully moved to dismiss the case for lack of evidence, and the case is now on appeal.
Troutman Sanders Defends Global Software Developer in Patent Trial
Dabney Carr and Robert Angle assisted in the defense of enterprise software developer Lawson 
Software in a patent infringement action involving three patents for electronic sourcing and procurement software. The Court dismissed plaintiff’s $20 million damage claim and Lawson obtained a jury verdict of non-infringement on most of the plaintiff’s claims. The case is currently on appeal.
Troutman Sanders Protects Prominent Trademark and Trade Dres
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Robert Angle and Megan Rahman, assisted by Dabney Carr, represented Lumber Liquidators, Inc., a nationally-known independent retailer and specialist in hardwood flooring products, in a trademark and trade dress infringement claim against Stone Mountain Carpet Mills, Inc. d/b/a The Floor Trader in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The crux of the dispute was over Floor Trader’s use of a tilted yellow and black mark that looks much like the well-known mark of Lumber Liquidators, both shown below:
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Lumber Liquidators defeated Floor Trader’s summary judgment motion and obtained summary judgment on Floor Trader’s counterclaims seeking to invalidate Lumber Liquidators’ trademarks. The case went to trial before Judge Henry Hudson for three days before the parties reached a confidential settlement.
Troutman Sanders Wins Defense Verdict in Telecommunications Patent Case
Dabney Carr and Robert Angle successfully defended U.S. Cellular Corporation in a multi-defendant patent litigation suit involving wireless modem cards which plug into a port on a laptop computer to connect the computer to the internet, such as the examples shown below:
The plaintiff, DNT LLC, sought damages of up to $175 million for the 11.6 million wireless modem cards collectively sold by the defendants since the beginning of 2003.
After a nine-day jury trial before Chief Judge James R. Spencer, the defendants obtained a resounding victory. The jury not only found that the defendants’ products did not infringe DNT’s patent, the jurors also returned a verdict that DNT’s patent was invalid for lack of enablement and written description and that the patent was invalid for obviousness.
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