Mformation Technologies v. Research In Motion
Addressing whether a district court's post-verdict ruling on
judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) constituted an improper change
in claim construction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit affirmed the district court's decision granting JMOL of
no infringement, finding that the district court at most clarified
its previous construction that was already present in the jury
instructions. Mformation Technologies v. Research In
Motion, Case Nos. 12-1679, 13-1123 (Fed. Cir., Aug. 22, 2014)
(Prost, J.).
Plaintiffs-appellants Mformation filed a lawsuit against
Research In Motion (BlackBerry) accusing Blackberry of patent
infringement of a patent directed to a method of remotely managing
an electronic device that required establishing a connection
between the wireless device and the server and
"transmitting" information from the server to the
wireless device. After trial, the jury found infringement. In a
post-trial
