This post is part of a monthly series summarizing notable
activity in patent litigation in the District of Massachusetts,
including short summaries of substantive orders issued in pending
cases.
Altova GmbH v. Syncro Soft SRL, No. 17-cv-11642 (D.
Mass. Feb. 7, 2019)
Altova sued Syncro alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No.
9,501,456, which is directed to "methods and apparatus,
including computer program products, for an automatic fix for XML
errors. The accused product was version 19.0 of Syncro's OXYGEN
XML Editor software, which includes a feature called "Quick
Fix." Altova alleged that the Quick Fix feature "helps
users resolve errors that appear in an XML document by offering
Quick Fixes to problems such as missing required attributes or
invalid elements."
