A federal judge in Texas rejected Lenovo Group Ltd.'s bid to dismiss a suit accusing the company of selling patent-infringing laptops and phones.
Monday’s order means patent aggregator Intellectual Venture I LLC’s April 2023 case could go to a jury in about a month, with trial currently scheduled for October 20.
IV’s sufficiently argued that Lenovo Group acts “in conjunction” with two US units, who were not named as defendants in the suit, and has knowledge “that these products enter the U.S. stream of commerce,” wrote Judge Alan Albright of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. ...