{"id":1772,"date":"2017-09-15T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:11:29","slug":"federal-court-lacked-jurisdiction-over-dj-for-non-infringement-where-defendant-did-not-own-the-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Lacked Jurisdiction over DJ for Non-Infringement; Where Defendant Did not Own the Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-2677.Opinion.9-14-2017.1.PDF\">First Data Corp. v. Inselberg<\/a>, [2016-2677, 2016-2696] (September 15, 2017), the Federal Circuit\u00a0affirmed the district court\u2019s dismissal\u00a0of plaintiff&#8217;s declaratory\u00a0judgment and defendant&#8217;s counterclaims.<\/p>\n<p>The ownership dispute regarding Inselberg\u2019s patent\u00a0portfolio stemmed from a $500,000\u00a0loan that Interactive received from Bisignano, which\u00a0 Inselberg personally guaranteed, and for which\u00a0Interactive granted Bisignano a security interest\u00a0in the portfolio of patents it owned at the time.\u00a0 Inselberg and Interactive defaulted\u00a0on the loan from Bisignano, and Inselberg and Bisignano\u00a0entered into an agreement that purported to<br \/>\nconvey Interactive\u2019s patent portfolio to Bisignano.<\/p>\n<p>Inselberg\u00a0claimed that the assignment to Bisignano\u00a0was invalid, and that Bisignano and First Data were infringers.\u00a0 Bisignano and First Data brought a declaratory judgment action of non-infringement in Federal Court, and Inselberg brought an action in state court attacking the assignment to Bisignano, which Bisignano removed to Federal Court.\u00a0 However the district court found that the rights at issue\u00a0in the case were ownership rights turning on\u00a0questions of state law, and remanded the case to state court, finding that there was no federal cause of action unless and until Inselberg recovers the patents.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit agreed with the district court, and further found that the case was not ripe\u00a0for\u00a0adjudication Inselberg&#8217;s claim rests upon a contingent future event, that may not occur as anticipated or may not occur at all.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit further found that the decision to remand\u00a0was\u00a0based on\u00a028 U.S.C. \u00a7 1447(c), and thus Section 1447(d) precluded it\u00a0from reviewing the district court\u2019s remand order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0First Data Corp. v. Inselberg, [2016-2677, 2016-2696] (September 15, 2017), the Federal Circuit\u00a0affirmed the district court\u2019s dismissal\u00a0of plaintiff&#8217;s declaratory\u00a0judgment and defendant&#8217;s counterclaims. The ownership dispute regarding Inselberg\u2019s patent\u00a0portfolio stemmed from a $500,000\u00a0loan that Interactive received from Bisignano, which\u00a0 Inselberg personally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}