Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 09-1372
Content Delivery Network service provider's patent infringement suit
Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 09-1372, concerned a challenge to the district court's judgment as a matter of law overturning a jury verdict
of infringement by defendant of claims 19-21 and 34 of '703 patent and
construction of certain claims of '645 and '413 patents, in plaintiff's suit for infringement of patents related to method claims directed to a content delivery services that delivers the base document of a web site from a content provider's computer while individual embedded objects of the website are stored on an object-by-object basis on a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
In affirming the judgment, the court held that, because the defendant
did not perform all of the steps of the asserted method claims, and the
record contains no basis on which to attribute to defendant the actions
of its customers who carried out the other steps, district court
properly granted JMOL of noninfringement to defendant. The court also
held that the district court properly entered judgment of
noninfringement of the '645 and '413 patents based on its rulings on
claim construction.
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