SANTA ANA — A California copy business is suing an imaging product manufacturer, alleging patent infringement.
Commercial Copy Innovations Inc. of Costa Mesa filed a complaint July 6 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Southern Division against Lexmark International Inc., alleging the defendant offers for sale and has sold the plaintiff's patented products without its written or express consent.
According to the complaint, Commercial Copy has acquired all rights and title to a U.S. patent for various products developed by Kodak. The plaintiff says these products have been copied, manufactured and sold within the stream of commerce without its knowledge, authority or consent.
The plaintiff alleges Lexmark markets, uses, sells, offers for sale, manufactures, has manufactured, makes, has made, imports, and/or has imported systems or products from the asserted patents of Commercial Copy without the plaintiff's authority, consent and rights or license.
Commercial Copy seeks trial by jury, damages, court costs, incurred, pre- and post-judgment interest, attorney fees and all other just and proper relief. It are represented by attorneys H.H. (Shashi) Kewalramani of SHK Legal, APC in Anaheim, California, and by Jonathan T. Suder, Brett M. Pinkus and Richard A. Wojcio Jr. of Friedman, Suder & Cooke in Fort Worth, Texas.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Southern Division case number 8:17-cv-01149-JVS-KES