Chamberlain Closes on Overhead Door
The Chamberlain Group v. Overhead Door Corp., 21-CV-00084 (E.D. Tex. 2023)
Overhead door gained a jury verdict on this case again in March 2022. Nonetheless, Decide Gilstrap ordered a partial new trial as a result of Overhead Door had didn’t disclose key options of its merchandise till simply earlier than trial. New Jury, New Verdict. Second time round, the brand new jury discovered the asserted claims legitimate and not infringed — setting the royalty at $43 million.
U.S. Patent No. 8,587,404.
4. A movable barrier system with a moving-barrier imminent movement notification, the system comprising:
a movable barrier operator related to shut a movable barrier;
the movable barrier operator configured to obtain a transmitter identification code from a transmitter as a part of a communication from the transmitter triggered in response to a primary consumer enter on the transmitter, the communication comprising a command to shut configured to impact closing of the movable barrier, the movable barrier operator additionally configured to find out whether or not to shut the movable barrier together with working a moving-barrier imminent movement notification in response to receipt of the command to shut the movable barrier primarily based a minimum of partially on the transmitter identification code;
the movable barrier operator configured to find out whether or not to shut the movable barrier with out working the moving-barrier imminent movement notification primarily based a minimum of partially on the transmitter identification code.
