Verizon Wins Decision Over Vehicle IP in Patent Case

A Delaware district court didn’t err in how it construed the term “dispatch” in a case involving a patent for GPS-guided maps, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday. The ruling was a win for Verizon and affiliates Networks in Motion and Telecommunication Systems in a patent dispute with Vehicle IP. The products in question are apps on mobile devices that allow users to request navigation information, the court said: “Users provide a destination to the mobile application, which prompts the application to send an inquiry to Appellees’ servers.” Vehicle IP “appeals that construction, as well as the district court’s grant of the defendants’ motion for summary judgment of no willful infringement,” the Federal Circuit ruled. “Because the district court properly construed ‘dispatch,’ we affirm.” Judge Todd Hughes wrote the decision. Judges Kathleen O’Malley and Jimmie Reyna were the other members of the panel.