Legal Opinion
Suffolk Technologies LLC v. AOL Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided December 7, 2012No. Case No. 1:12cv625PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
This patent infringement suit presents the increasingly common, but always vexing jurisdictional question whether plaintiff, the assignee of the patent in issue, possesses “all substantial rights”1 to the patent, such that it has standing to sue putative infringers. More precisely, the question is whether plaintiff Suffolk Technologies, LLC (“Suffolk”), the owner by assignment of the patent in issue, has standing to sue infringers where, as here, the assignment:(i) assigns to Suffolk all right, title, and interest in the patent;(ii) assigns to…
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