Dropbox Avoids $35-Million Verdict in Texas Patent Lawsuit (1)

May 19, 2023, 7:23 PM UTCUpdated: May 19, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

A federal jury in Waco, Texas, cleared Dropbox Inc. of claims that it infringed an inventor’s patents, sparing the file-sharing company a potential $35.7 million verdict.

The California tech company convinced jurors in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas that it hadn’t infringed four file-sharing patents asserted against it by Motion Offense LLC, a company associated with prolific North Carolina inventor Robert Paul Morris and that his patents were also invalid.

The verdict, delivered Friday, capped off a five-day trial and nearly four years of litigation between Dropbox and Motion Offense, a company formed to assert ...

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