Date: 06-04-2001

Case Style: Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company

Case Number: 95-CV-1764

Judge: Unknown

Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

Plaintiff's Attorney: Michael V. Ciresi, Jan M. Conlin Thomas L. Hamlin and Katie Crosby Lehmann of Robin, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Defendant's Attorney: Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, California and Jack Lauter of Pennie & Edmonds, New York, new York

Description: Patent Infringement - Printer Techology - Laser Printers - Pitney Bowes claimed that Hewelet-Packard's laser jet products infringed on a patent issued to Pitney in 1983 relating to the use of beams of light to make variable-sized dots that make the edges of printed characters smoother. Pitney Bowes sought $1 billion in damages.

Hewelett-Packard denied that its printers violated Pitney Bowes' patent and further asserted that the patent was invalid.

Outcome: Settled just before trial for $400 million.

Plaintiff's Experts: Unknown

Defendant's Experts: Unknown

Comments: None