Encyclopaedia Britannica v. Alpine Electronics of America, No. 2009-1544 (Fed. Cir. 6/18/2010).  Encylopedia Britannica (EB) owns the ‘018 and ‘437 patents, pertaining to multimedia database search system for retrieving textual and graphical information.  EB sued defendants Alpine Electronics and several others alleging infringement of these two patents. The defendants argued that the patents were invalid …

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