Parrot Settles 2016 Lawsuit Over Smaller Rival’s Drone Patents

The French company Parrot had sought the court’s declaration that a range of its drone products don’t infringe two patents owned by closely held QFO Labs.

• No details provided in stipulation and order of dismissal with prejudice, approved Friday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware
• Patents were cited by SZ DJI Technology in a pre-emptive suit it had filed to fend off a potential patent-infringement complaint from QFO
  • DJI, world’s biggest maker of drones, in March settled its suit
• Titled “Homeostatic flying hovercraft,” the patents were issued in April 2011 and July 2015
• QFO’s chief executive officer, Brad Pedersen, ...