Legal Opinion
Finisar Corp. v. DirecTV Group, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided March 28, 2006No. 2:05-cv-00264PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER STRIKING INVALIDITY DISCLOSURES
CLARK, District Judge.
Plaintiff Finisar Corp. (“Finisar”) alleges that Defendants The DirecTV Group, Inc., DirecTV Holdings, LLC, DirecTV Enterprises, LLC, DirecTV Operations, LLC, DirecTV, Inc., and Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (“DirecTV”) infringed on United States Patent No. 5,404,505 (“the ‘ 505 patent”). The ‘ 505' patent describes the transfer of information, from an information database, to subscribers, upon request, through satellite transmission. Fi-nisar has moved to strike a number of prior art references relied upon by DirecTV’s experts, and…
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