Western Digital Corp and Sling Media Inc. have won an appeals court ruling in their patent fight with Nazomi Communications Inc., a software developer that switched its primary business model to patent licensing. Other companies may stand to benefit from the ruling, including Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co.
In a 17-page decision issued on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a prior ruling that Western Digital, which manufactures computer hard disk drives, and Sling, which makes TV streaming media devices, don’t infringe two Nazomi patents relating to Java programming. The court ruled that U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte in San Francisco properly construed several claims in the two patents.
