ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE, INC. AND ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE CORPORATION, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STEALTH SIGNAL, INC. AND COMPUTER SECURITY PRODUCTS, INC., Defendants-Cross Appellants., 659 F.3d 1121

Summary

The patentees owned three patents ("the '758 patent," "the '863 patent," and "the '914 patent") that related to a method, apparatus, and system for retrieving lost or stolen electronic devices via a global network, such as the Internet, and they claimed that a software product sold by two competitors infringed all three patents. The competitors obtained a license to U.S. Patent No. 5,406,269 ("the '269 patent") after the patentees filed their infringement action, and they claimed that software products the patentees sold infringed the '269 patent, which also described an invention that remotely monitored electronic devices. Although both sides moved for summary judgment on their claims, the district court found that neither the patentees' products nor the competitors' product infringed the patents in suit. The court of appeals found that the district court erred when it entered summary judgment in favor of the competitors. Although the district court found that the competitors' product...