SOUTH DAKOTA SUPREME COURT ISSUES OPINION ON INFERNAL TECHNOLOG V/S SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT CASE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued the following opinion on Feb. 2:

CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge. Infernal Technology, LLC, and Terminal Reality, Inc., (collectively, "Infernal" for the remainder of this opinion) appeal the decision from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas denying Infernal's motion for a new trial following a jury verdict that certain products belonging to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC ("Sony") did not infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,362,822 ("'822 patent") and U.S. Patent No. 7,061,488 ("'488 patent") (collectively, the "Asserted Patents"). Sony, on a conditional cross-appeal, challenges the district court's finding that the claims of the Asserted Pat...