Legal Opinion
DuVal Wiedmann, LLC v. InfoRocket. Com, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 17, 2010No. 09-50787PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge.
DuVal Wiedmann, LLC (“DuVal Wiedmann”), appeals a summary judgment on its breach-of-contract claim. We affirm the summary judgment but remand for consideration of whether DuVal Wiedmann is owed royalties for one particular period of time.
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The facts, though intricate, are not in material dispute. Stephen DuVal (“Du-Val”) is the inventor of a patent (“the ’836 patent”), issued in October 1998, that includes a method to establish a voice telephone call after clicking a button on a website. DuVal filed his patent application in August 1995. While the application was…
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