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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