Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/185416961/TLI-Communications-v-Photobucket-com
Timestamp: 2017-09-20 13:27:55
Document Index: 82902660

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 271', '§ 284', '§ 283', '§ 1331', '§ 1391', '§ 284', '§ 285']

TLI Communications v. Photobucket.com | Patent Infringement | Patent Claim
Description: Official Complaint for Patent Infringement in Civil Action No. None: TLI Communications LLC v. Photobucket.com Inc. Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, no judge yet assigned....
Official Complaint for Patent Infringement in Civil Action No. None: TLI Communications LLC v. Photobucket.com Inc. Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, no judge yet assigned. See http://news.priorsmart.com/-l9vT for more info.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------x TLI COMMUNICATIONS LLC, : : C.A. No. _____________ Plaintiff, : : : v.
: : JURY TRIAL DEMANDED PHOTOBUCKET.COM, INC. : Defendant. : : : : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------x Complaint for Patent Infringement Plaintiff TLI Communications LLC (“TLI”) files this Complaint for Patent Infringement (“Complaint”) against Photobucket.com, Inc. (“Photobucket”), wherein, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 271 and 281, Plaintiff seeks a judgment of infringement by Defendant of U.S. Patent No. 6,038,295 (the “’295 Patent”) and damages resulting therefrom pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 284, as well as preliminary and permanent injunction of the infringing activity pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 283, and such other relief as the Court deems just and proper, and in support thereof alleges as follows: The Parties 1. Plaintiff TLI is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal place of
business at 3422 Old Capitol Trail, Suite 72, Wilmington, Delaware 19808. 2. On information and belief, Defendant Photobucket is a Delaware corporation with
its principal place of business at 506 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104. Photobucket
may be served with process via its registered agent, Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, Delaware 19808. Jurisdiction and Venue 3. This is an action for patent infringement arising under the Patent Laws of the
§§ 1331 and 1338(a) because the action concerns infringement of a United States patent. 5. Upon information and belief, Photobucket conducts substantial business in
Delaware, directly or through intermediaries, including: (i) at least a portion of the infringements alleged herein; and (ii) regularly doing or soliciting business, engaging in other persistent courses of conduct and/or deriving substantial revenue from goods and services provided to individuals in Delaware. Further, this Court has personal jurisdiction over Photobucket because it is incorporated in Delaware and has purposely availed itself of the privileges and benefits of the laws of the State of Delaware. 6. Venue is proper under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391 and 1400. The Patent-in-Suit 7. TLI is the owner of the ’295 Patent entitled “Apparatus and Method for
of digital images from a telephone. Over the past few years, smart cellular telephones that incorporate sophisticated digital cameras have exploded in popularity, as has social media. Today, hundreds of millions of digital images are uploaded onto computer servers and social media websites every day, including via www.photobucket.com. Photobucket’s products use the ’295’s patented technology, without license or authority, to classify those images so that they can be easily uploaded, stored, organized, retrieved and shared. Photobucket’s Infringing Products 14. Photobucket provides web based products and services. Photobucket’s revenues
are attributed to, among other things, display advertising and fee-based services. 3
Photobucket recently offered downloadable applications, especially designed for
iPhone and Android mobile telephones, and other mobile telephone platforms, which allow telephone users to easily characterize and upload digital images to Photobucket servers. 16. So that these digital images could be uploaded, stored and organized, Photobucket
had to develop products and processes that, on information and belief, employ TLI’s patented technology. The infringing products include, but are not limited to, the products and processes that Photobucket uses to upload, store and organize the digital images it receives from mobile telephones (“Photobucket Infringing Products”). Discovery is expected to uncover the full extent of Photobucket’s unlawful use of TLI’s patented technology beyond these accused Infringing Products already identified through public information. CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Infringement of the ’295 Patent) 17. TLI incorporates by reference paragraphs 1 through 16 of the Complaint as if set
forth here in full. 18. Upon information and belief, Photobucket has been and is currently directly
infringing one or more claims of the ’295 Patent by making, using, offering to sell, and/or selling within the United States, and/or importing into the United States, without authority, the Photobucket Infringing Products. For example, and without limitation, Photobucket has directly infringed and continues to directly infringe the ’295 Patent in this judicial district and elsewhere in the United States. Photobucket’s infringement includes, without limitation, (i) making and using the apparatus of claim 1 and claims dependent thereon, and (ii) practicing the method of claim 17 and claims dependent thereon. 19. Specifically, Photobucket’s direct infringement includes, without limitation (i) its
uploading of digital images from mobile telephones onto Photobucket servers (or onto servers operated on or for Photobucket’s behalf (“Photobucket servers”)), (ii) its testing of its 4
Photobucket products by uploading images with mobile telephones onto Photobucket servers within the United States, and (iii) its maintaining Photobucket servers that categorize and store images that were uploaded via mobile telephones. Photobucket also directs and/or controls its employees, executives, agents, customers and agents to use the Photobucket Infringing Products to upload images from mobile telephones onto Photobucket servers within the United States. Photobucket also directly infringes one or more claims of the ’295 Patent by providing downloadable applications to mobile telephone users and thus putting the Infringing Products into use. 20. Upon information and belief, upon knowledge of the ’295 Patent (at least since
the filing date of this Complaint), Photobucket is contributing to the infringement of the ’295 Patent by, among other things, knowingly and with intent, actively encouraging its customers, suppliers, agents and affiliates to make, use, sell and/or offer for sale the Photobucket Infringing Products in a manner that constitutes infringement of one or more claims of the ’295 Patent. There are no substantial uses of the Infringing Products that do not infringe one or more claims of the ’295 Patent. Photobucket mobile telephone applications that Photobucket provides to its customers, for example, have no substantial non-infringing use. 21. Upon information and belief, upon knowledge of the ’295 Patent (at least since
the filing date of this Complaint), Photobucket is inducing infringement of the ’295 Patent by, among other things, knowingly and with intent, actively encouraging its customers, suppliers, agents and affiliates to make, use, sell and/or offer for sale Photobucket Infringing Products in a manner that constitutes infringement of one or more claims of the ’295 Patent. 22. To the extent that Photobucket’s customers can be considered to put the
Infringing Products into use, then Photobucket would also be inducing infringement of the ’295
Patent by, among other things, knowingly and with intent (at least since the filing date of this Complaint), actively encouraging its customers to make and use Photobucket’s products in a manner that constitutes infringement of one or more claims of the ’295 Patent. 23. As a result of Photobucket’s unlawful infringement of the ’295 Patent, TLI has
suffered and will continue to suffer damage. TLI is entitled to recover from Photobucket the damages adequate to compensate for such infringement, which have yet to be determined. 24. Any further manufacturing, sales, offers for sale, uses, or importation by
Photobucket of the Infringing Products will demonstrate a deliberate and conscious decision to infringe the ’295 Patent or, at the very least, a reckless disregard of TLI’s patent rights. If Photobucket continues to manufacture, use, offer to sell, sell, and/or import the Infringing Products following its notice of the ’295 Patent claims, Photobucket’s infringement will be willful and TLI will be entitled to treble damages and attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in this action, along with prejudgment interest under 35 U.S.C. §§ 284, 285. 25. Photobucket will continue to infringe the ‘295 Patent unless and until it is
enjoined by this Court. 26. Photobucket’s acts of infringement have caused and will continue to cause
irreparable harm to TLI unless and until Photobucket is enjoined by this Court. PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, TLI prays for a Judgment in favor of TLI and against Defendant as follows: A. B. C. Photobucket; 6 That Photobucket has directly infringed the ’295 Patent; That Photobucket has indirectly infringed the ’295 Patent; That this case is “exceptional” within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 285 against
An order preliminarily and permanently enjoining Photobucket and its affiliates,
subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, licensees, successors, assigns, and all those acting for them and on their behalf, or acting in concert with them directly or indirectly, from further acts of infringement of the ’295 Patent; E. A full accounting for and an award of damages to TLI for Photobucket’s
FARNAN LLP /s/ Brian E. Farnan Brian E. Farnan (Bar No. 4089) Michael J. Farnan (Bar No. 5165) 919 North Market Street, 12th Floor Wilmington, Delaware 19801 302-777-0300 302-777-0301 bfarnan@farnanlaw.com Attorney for Plaintiff Of Counsel: Robert A. Whitman Mark S. Raskin Mishcon de Reya New York LLP 750 Seventh Ave, 26th Floor 7
New York, New York 10019 Telephone (212) 612-3270 Facsimile (212) 612-3297
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