Case: Patents/Summary Judgment (W.D. Wis.)

A federal district court in Wisconsin granted in part and denied in part Ashley Furniture Industries Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in Ascion LLC’s action for infringement of its patent for a multi-part bed leg assembly that can be put together in various configurations to produce different heights. The court determined that Ashley Furniture is entitled to summary judgment that all claims of the patent are invalid for lack of written description. But the court held that Ashley Furniture didn’t met its burden to show that the term “substantially horizontal” introduces unreasonable uncertainty into the scope of the claims of ...