Case summary
- Plaintiff
- Coding Technologies, LLC
- Defendant
- Kforce, Inc.
- Patent asserted
- US8540159B2“Method for providing mobile service using code-pattern”
- Products listed
- QR Codes (to capture certain code pattern information and convert same into embedded content )
- Court
- M.D. Fla.
- Verdict cause
- Infringement action
- Filed
- 12 Oct 2017
- Closed
- 19 Dec 2017 (68 days)
- Recorded category
- Voluntary dismissal
- Judge
- Elizabeth A. Kovachevich
- Case no.
- 8:17-cv-02400
Counsel of record · 2 attorneys, 2 firms
- Alberto Tomas Montequin, plaintiff counsel
- Eleanor Trotman Barnett, defendant counsel
- Plaintiff firm: Watson LLP
- Defendant firm: Waldman Barnett PL
How the case ended
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