Cooperation Helps Refine Giant Infringement Case

TYLER, Texas (CN) - A federal judge praised the 125 parties to a massive patent infringement case for working together so the court could identify common claims and dismiss four-fifths of the defendants led by Southwest Airlines. Parallel Networks sued 124 companies in four separate actions, claiming that the companies' websites infringed on a single patent concerning client-server communications. The wide array of defendants included retailers like...