After Long Road Eyewear Patents Defeated

In 2002 Aspex Eyewear sued Altair Eyewear for infringement of three patents in the Southern District of New York.  After a claim construction ruling the district court granted Altair’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement.  The claim construction was reversed by the Federal Circuit and the case was returned to the district court where it was reassigned to Judge Young sitting by designation (several D. Mass. judges have been doing this to assist the SDNY with its docket) and then officially transferred to D. Mass.  In the meantime, Altair petitioned to reexamine one of the patents, but the PTO allowed all the original claims.  Then things got going in front of Judge Young.