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Article: Jury Awards $6 Million Plus in Avid Pet Microchip Trial; Avid Prevails on Claims of False Advertising and Patent Infringement.
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- June 5, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- A leading maker of microchips for pets -- Avid Identification Systems, Inc. -- scored a significant litigation victory last week when a jury found two competitors liable for infringing Avid's technology and making false advertising claims that harmed consumers. The jury awarded Avid more than $6 million in the lawsuit against European-based Datamars SA and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Crystal Import Corporation. Avid was represented by Fish & Richardson, with Juanita Brooks as lead counsel.
The jury unanimously found that Datamars and Crystal not only infringed, but willfully infringed three patents held by Avid for its core RFID technology, ...
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Article: AVID settles patent cases
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January 1, 2005 ;
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... ... doubled the damages awarded to AVID. David B. Abel of Squire ... infringement case, in May 2004, AVID filed suit in East Texas against ... Banfield the Pet Hospital, Datamars Inc. and others, related to AVID's scanning and microchipping ...
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