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Federal Appeals Court Confirms That Acacia’s Device Profiling Patent is Invalid

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed district court’s decision

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Electronics For Imaging, Inc. announced another key victory in a patent troll case filed against the company. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed that a device profile patent asserted by a subsidiary of the non-practicing entity Acacia Research Corporation against EFI and 31 other companies is invalid.   Acacia subsidiary Digitech Image Technologies, LLC filed a patent infringement suit in a California federal court in August 2012 against EFI, certain EFI str...

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