Altova GmbH v. Syncro Soft SRL

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS ___________________________________ ) ALTOVA GMBH and ALTOVA, INC., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) Civil Action v. ) No. 17-11642-PBS ) SYNCRO SOFT SRL, ) ) Defendant. ) ______________________________ ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER July 26, 2018 Saris, C.J. INTRODUCTION This case involves a patent dispute between Altova GmbH and Altova, Inc. (collectively, “Altova”), and Syncro Soft SRL (“Syncro Soft”), direct competitors in the market for extensible markup language (“XML”)1 editor software. The patent at issue, owned by Altova, concerns an automatic fix…