US Court Eliminates Patent Infringement Claims made by Continuous Composites against Markforged
US Court Eliminates Patent Infringement Claims made by Continuous Composites against Markforged
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware has issued its ruling, eliminating four patents originally asserted by Continuous Composites against Markforged in July 2021.
The Court’s ruling fortified that Markforged does not infringe these patents and supported Markforged's position that these claims were meritless. As a result, only one patent, which was added to the case in February 2022, comprising two patent claims asserted by Continuous Composites remains.
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware concluded its verdict after a recent 'Claim Construction' proceeding in which both parties presented arguments for how the key concepts of each patent should be interpreted.
Based on these arguments, the Court concurred with Markforged's interpretation of a phrase in the patents, with Continuous Composites conceding that the four patents, comprising of 20 patent claims, should be removed from the case.
Regarding the remaining patent and patent claims, Markforged contended that it will ‘continue to mount an aggressive defence of the couple remaining claims against us in this final patent.’ The business is concentrated on supporting the more than 10,000 worldwide manufacturers who depend on Markforged technology daily to create “mission-critical parts.”
In February, the US Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had ruled in favour of Continuous Composites by denying six out of seven petitions filed by Markforged for Inter Partes Review (IPR), in which it had contested the validity of claims of its foundational patents involved in its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit with Continuous Composites.
