Bose Corp. v. JBL, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this patent infringement case, plaintiff Bose Corporation accuses defendant JBL, Inc. and Infinity Systems Corp. (collectively, “JBL”) of infringing U.S. Patent No. 5,714,721, entitled “PORTING” (“the ’721 patent”), which relates to a port inside a loudspeaker enclosure used to radiate acoustic energy from inside the speaker to the awaiting listener outside the speaker. Bose seeks a finding that JBL willfully infringed the patent by incorporating the ’721 invention in several of its speaker models and continuing to sell those…