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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JERALD A. BOVINO,

Plaintiff,

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INCASE DESIGNS CORP,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-02105-VC 

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Re: Dkt. No. 101

Incase's motion for summary judgment is granted. 

Bovino's patent claims "[a] portable computer comprising," among other things, "an 

openable case defining an exterior surface for holding the computer." Bovino contends that 

Incase, which produces cases that are used with the iPad, is liable for induced and contributory 

infringement. His theory is that iPad users directly infringe when they put their iPads into the 

cases produced by Incase.

A few months before Bovino filed this lawsuit, he entered into a settlement agreement with 

Apple. That settlement agreement bars this lawsuit. -

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Bovino claims he never intended the Apple settlement agreement to prevent him from 

suing Incase,

2 and that Incase has not established that it was an intended third-party beneficiary of 

the agreement. That may be true; there may be some other circumstance in which Bovino could 

sue Incase. ___________________________________________________________________ 

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 25, 2015

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Vince Chhabria

United States District Judge

 2 Bovino attached a declaration to his opposition brief in which he purported to recite various 

iterations of the portion of the settlement agreement ____________________________________ _______________________________________ The Court only considers this declaration to the 

extent that it is indicative of Bovino's stated intent; it is neither admissible with respect to, nor 

probative of, the actual meaning of the contract language. 

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