Legal Opinion
Ocean Tomo, LLC v. PatentRatings, LLC
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided April 12, 2019No. 12 C 8450PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Honorable Thomas M. Durkin, United States District Judge
Jonathan Barney, through his company PatentRatings, LLC, created and patented a database and computer program (the PatentRatings "system") for analyzing and evaluating patents. Ocean Tomo, LLC, provides financial services and consulting related to intellectual property, including patent analytics. In 2004, the parties reached agreements providing for (1) licensing the PatentRatings system to Ocean Tomo; (2) giving Ocean Tomo an ownership interest in PatentRatings; and (3) giving Barney an ownership interest in, and a management position…
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