Legal Opinion
Nuance Communications, Inc. v. ABBYY USA Software House, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 22, 2016No. 2014-1629, 2014-1630PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PROST, Chief Judge.
This case involves optical character recognition (“OCR”) technology. Nuance Communications Inc. (“Nuance”) sued AB-BYY USA Software House, Inc., ABBYY Software, Ltd., ABBYY Production LLC, and Lexmark International, Inc. (collectively, “ABBYY”) in the United Stated District Court for the Northern District of California. Although Nuance asserted eight patents in its complaint, before trial Nuance narrowed its case and ultimately only tried three patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,038,342 (“'342 patent”), 5,381,489 (“'489 patent”), and 6,742,161 (“'161 patent”). The jury returned a…
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