D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update: February 2024

In Current Lighting Solutions, LLC v. Signify Holding B.V., No. 1:23-cv-11398, Judge O'Toole declined to exercise jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgement Act and thus granted the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss.

Prior to the filing of Current's declaratory judgment complaint, the Parties were engaged in serious cross-licensing negotiations. As a licensing meeting approached, Current first pushed the meeting back a week and then cancelled it less than thirty minutes before the rescheduled start time, informing Signify of its declaratory judgment suit and noting that it "will hold off on formally serving the Complaint in order to leave open a transition period, should [Signify] wish to present a more realistic licensing offer." Subsequently, Signify filed three patent infringement actions against Current – two in the District of Delaware and one at the International Trade Commission – with some overlap of patents at issue in the action in the District of