AutoDesk’s Innovyze Loses Bid to Toss Water-Management-Tech Suit

AutoDesk Inc.’s Innovyze unit must face an Israeli company’s allegations in Delaware federal court that some of its systems for analyzing and modeling a utility’s water distribution infringe four TaKaDu Ltd. patents on cloud technology for monitoring pipe leaks and bursts, a federal judge ruled.

“Given that the patents involve statistical analysis and manipulation of” geographical information system data, “I agree with TaKaDu,” Judge Richard G. Andrews wrote in an opinion on Tuesday for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. “At this stage in the proceedings there is no clear and convincing evidence that these patents merely ...