Earlier this week, Google managed to convince a US court for an appeal worth multi million over a patent infringement dispute regarding the technology on its Chrome browser. The company managed to cancel three anti malware patents infringement case that were worth 20 million US Dollars.
For those unaware, Cioffi and the late Rozman’s daughters filed a lawsuit against the Search Engine giant over anti malware technology that it employed on its popular web browser, Google Chrome. The claimed that the technology that prevents malware from accessing critical files on your computer in the browser infringed on their patents. Thus, a jury decided that Google had infringed on the patents and awarded the plaintiffs a 20 million US Dollar along with ongoing royalties back in 2017.
Their attorney had revealed back then that this expected amount would total to about 7 million US Dollars per year for the next nine years. However, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stated that Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman’s patents are invalid since they contained technologies that were not originally included in an earlier version of the patent.
The Federal Circuit also added that the all of the patents were invalid since the three patents that were reissued were based on a previous anti malware patent. In other words, federal law required the new patents to cover the same invention. Furthermore, the appeals court added that the new patents were specifically related to the browser technology, which were details not included in the first patent.
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