GAF Gets EagleView’s Aerial Imaging Patent Suit Moved to Utah

Standard Industries Inc.’s GAF Materials, which says it’s responsible for roofs on one-quarter of U.S. homes, convinced a federal judge in its home district of New Jersey to grant “an admittedly unusual request” to transfer EagleView Technology Corp.’s patent-infringement case over aerial imaging technology to Utah.

Judge Renee Marie Bumb, calling it “an unavoidably close call,” granted the request after finding “many similarities” between the case and a pending suit EagleView filed concurrently in Utah against Nearmap US, according to an opinion issued March 25 and posted Monday to the U.S. District Court for the District of ...