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St. Clair Settles Patent Litigation with Canon
MINNEAPOLIS,
Minn., May 06– St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, Inc.
announces that it has resolved its patent dispute with Canon Inc. and
Canon U.S.A., Inc. (Canon).
On February 28, 2003, St. Clair sued
Canon in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
charging Canon with infringing four patents covering digital camera
technology. The case proceeded to trial and on October 8, 2004 a jury
awarded St. Clair $34.7 million in damages.On March 17, 2006, St. Clair
and Canon entered into a Settlement Agreement that resolves the
litigation between them. The settlement includes a payment from Canon
to St. Clair. Canon also waived its claim that St. Clair does not own
the patents. All other terms of the Agreement are confidential.
In a
separate development, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in
response to a request to reexamine the patents, reaffirmed the
patentability of all claims of the patents.
St. Clair is represented
by Ronald J. Schutz, Chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation
Practice Group at the national law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller &
Ciresi L.L.P., which, in January 2004, was named by the American Lawyer
as having the Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year.
St.
Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, Inc. is based in Grosse
Pointe, Michigan. St. Clair is engaged in intellectual property
development and licensing. Other licensees of St. Clair for the patents
asserted against Canon include: Sony Corporation, Nikon Corporation,
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Konica-Minolta, Seiko Epson Corporation,
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Kyocera Corporation, Pentax Corporation, and
Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.
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