Magnacross Loses Patent Suit, Sanctioned For Copy-Paste Blunder

Part of a Magnacross LLC wireless data transmission patent covers only an abstract idea, a North Texas federal judge ruled, while sanctioning the patent licensing company for recycling in its arguments irrelevant parts of an old brief.

The ruling came in a lawsuit Magnacross filed against OKI Data Americas Inc., alleging OKI desktop printers infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,917,304.

Responding to OKI’s argument that the disputed patent claim covers ineligible subject matter, Magnacross copied and pasted from a brief it filed in a different case, according to court documents. The copied material referred to parts of the patent not ...