BMW Axes Remote-Starter Patent Behind Delaware Infringement Suit

The Federal Circuit ruled that a Georgia inventor’s car remote-starter patent that his company alleges was infringed by BMW AG is invalid in light of two previously published inventions.

Kenneth Flick’s Omega Patents LLC sued BMW for infringement of US Patent No. 9,458,814 in May 2020. The suit was transferred from an Atlanta courthouse to the US District Court for the District of Delaware, which paused the proceedings after BMW filed an administrative challenge to the patent’s validity at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

The PTAB ruled that the ‘814 patent was obvious, and therefore invalid, based on two ...