Garmin Ltd. v. Tomtom, Inc.

571 F. Supp. 2d 917, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30617, 2007 WL 5404944
CourtDistrict Court, W.D. Wisconsin
DecidedApril 24, 2007
Docket06-C-0062-C, 06-C-0063-C
StatusPublished
Cited by1 cases

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Garmin Ltd. v. Tomtom, Inc., 571 F. Supp. 2d 917, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30617, 2007 WL 5404944 (W.D. Wis. 2007).

Opinion

OPINION AND ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Garmin Ltd. and Garmin Corporation seek to reopen these consolidated cases, which were closed on December 28, 2006, after I entered judgment in favor of defendant TomTom, Inc. on the claims brought by Garmin and in favor of Garmin on the counterclaims brought by TomTom. Both the claims and the counterclaims alleged infringement of patents relating to navigational aid devices.

The basis for Garmin’s motion is its belief that there remain unresolved claims that were not raised in its motion for summary judgment:

• Claims 1, 5, 6, 9 and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 6,188,956
• Claim 6 of U.S. Patent No. 6,222,485
• Claim 38 of U.S. Patent No. 6,901,330
• Claims 16, 17 and 18 of U.S. Patent No. 6,999,873

As it turns out, TomTom moved for summary judgment on each of these claims. I declined to consider TomTom’s arguments because it did not appear that Garmin was alleging infringement of those claims, meaning that there was no actual case or controversy. Because it is now clear that Garmin was asserting infringement of those claims and that TomTom had notice of those claims (as evidenced by their inclusion in TomTom’s motion for summary judgment), I will grant Garmin’s motion to reopen the case.

In addition, Garmin has filed a motion to strike portions of a document filed by TomTom in response to Garmin’s motion to reopen the case, in which TomTom made new arguments in support of its motion for summary judgment. Garmin is correct that such argument was not requested by the court and that it was not fair motion practice because Garmin did not have an opportunity to respond. Therefore, I will grant the motion to strike.

However, because TomTom’s motion for summary judgment relating to the unresolved patents is fully briefed, I may decide it now without further submissions from the parties. For the reasons explained below, I conclude that TomTom is entitled to summary judgment on each of the remaining claims.

Finally, the parties have pointed out that several of TomTom’s claims were omitted from the order of the December 22, 2006 summary judgment opinion, even though I concluded in the body of the opinion that Garmin did not infringe those claims. The order will be amended accordingly.

*919 I. U.S. PATENT NO. 6,188,956

Invention: A GPS device that selects which roads to display on a screen

Asserted claims: 1, 5, 6 (dependent on claim 5), 9 and 19

Accused devices: Tom Tom Go, TomTom Go 300,

TomTom Go 510, TomTom Go 700,

TomTom 910, TomTom Rider,

TomTom One (infringement under 35

U.S.C. § 271(a)); TomTom Navigator 5, TomTom Navigator 6 (infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) and (c))

UNDISPUTED FACTS

A. The Claims

Claim 1 discloses:
1. A navigation device for navigating a vehicle on a thoroughfare, said device comprising:
a memory containing cartographic data indicative of a plurality of thoroughfares, including said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, wherein at least one of said thoroughfares intersects said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, and wherein each of said thoroughfares has an associated name stored in memory;
a processor connected to said memory;
and a display, connected to said processor, for displaying said cartographic data, wherein said display displays the name of each of said thoroughfares that intersects with said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, but does not display the name associated with said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated.
Claim 5 discloses:
A navigation device, for navigating a vehicle on a thoroughfare, said device comprising:
a memory containing cartographic data indicative of a plurality of thoroughfares, including said thoroughfare on which said vehicle is being navigated, wherein each said thoroughfare has an associated name stored in said memory, and wherein a first set of said thoroughfares are generally aligned in a first direction, and a second set of said thoroughfares are generally aligned in a second direction;
a processor for retrieving at least a portion of said cartographic data from said memory;
and a display, connected to said processor, wherein said display displays images indicative of said thoroughfares and displays the names of each thoroughfare in a selected one of said sets of thoroughfares.
Claim 6 discloses:
The navigation device as set forth in claim 5, wherein each said thoroughfare in said first set of thoroughfares intersects said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, and wherein said selected one of said sets is said first set.
Claim 9 discloses:
A navigation device for navigating a vehicle on a thoroughfare, said device comprising:
a memory containing cartographic data indicative of a plurality of thoroughfares, including said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, wherein a first set of said thoroughfares intersects with the thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, and a second set of thoroughfares do not intersect with the thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, wherein each said thoroughfare has an associated name stored in said memory;
a processor connected to said memory;
and a display, connected to said processor, for displaying said cartographic data, wherein said display displays the name of each said thoroughfare in said first set, but does not display the name associated with the thoroughfares in said second set.
Claim 19 discloses:
*920 A navigation device for navigating a vehicle on a thoroughfare, said device comprising:
a memory containing cartographic data indicative of a plurality of thoroughfares, including said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, wherein at least one of said thoroughfares intersects with said thoroughfare upon which said vehicle is being navigated, and wherein each of said thoroughfares has an associated name stored in memory;
a processor connected to said memory;

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