Case: Copyrights & Patents/Procedure (D.P.R.)

The district of Puerto Rico granted Thales DIS USA Inc., Apple Corporation, and Thomas Bravo Corporation’s motion to dismiss an individual’s copyright and patent infringement claims with prejudice. The court found that the complaint failed to allege how Thales DIS USA’s product combined all of the claim elements of the alleged patent, or to compare any of Apple’s systems to any claimed limitation of the patent. And the court dismissed the copyright infringement claims because the complaint failed to allege access or copying of constituent elements of the original work.