Dow Jones & Co., Inc. v. Ablaise Ltd.
Dow Jones...(U.S. Fed. Cir., Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement suit, directed to methods for using a Web server to send individualized content and formatting instructions in the form of Web pages, district court’s judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) district court’s grant of summary judgment of invalidity of the ’737 patent is affirmed on grounds of obviousness under the prior art in view of general knowledge in the field; and 2) district court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss Dow Jones’ invalidity claim against one patent is reversed as a covenant not to sue proffered by defendant extinguishes the controversy between the parties and divests the district court of its Article III jurisdiction.
