Blog 14 - Judge denies additional claims Ericson Vs. Samsung

Ericson attempted to add 15 patents to its 130 claim portfolio against Samsung. These claims are on several of Samsung’s cellphones and tablets. However, the judge was worried about adding so many patents to a limited 15 month time frame for a case, so he rejected the addition patents. Most ITC judges are limited in time and try to reduce the amount of claims. Plus, most cases slash the amount of claims by majority or more. Plus, Erickson has recently been looked at suspiciously for filing claims that have hardly any basis. So, judges usually look at this unfavorably and it may affect their decisions in future cases. However, the judge for this case, Judge Shaw did not mention this when denying the additional 15 claims. This show how desperate companies are to get as much as they can out of these litigation cases. I can imagine the courts are seeing such high volume of complaints that they cannot handle so many claims.