Court of Appeals sides with Apple in ColorSync case
Court of Appeals sides with Apple in ColorSync case
- Subject: Court of Appeals sides with Apple in ColorSync case
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:54:04 -0600
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Court of Appeals sides with Apple in ColorSync case
by Jim Dalrymple, email@hidden
August 2, 2001 7:40 pm ET
For the second time a U.S. court has sided with Apple in the ColorSync
patent infringement lawsuit. In an unpublished decision, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court's decision and
dismissed the lawsuit brought by Imatec Ltd.
The lawsuit, first filed on Feb. 13 1998, alleged that Apple's ColorSync
color management software infringed on Imatec's patents. The case was
dismissed on Jan. 24, 2000 when the judge ruled that Imatec didn't own the
patents on which the suit was based and that ColorSync didn't infringe on
these patents in any case.
The day after the decision, Imatec issued a statement indicating their
intention to appeal the ruling. "With due respect to the court, the
dismissal of our Complaint leads me to question how well the presiding judge
understood the highly technical issues involved," said Dr. Hanoch Shalit,
president and CEO of Imatec at the time.
In rendering his decision yesterday Judge Arthur Gajarsa wrote, "having
properly concluded that Dr. Shalit did not own the rights to the patent, the
district court correctly concluded that both he and Imatec lacked standing
to bring this infringement suit."