Author: Kristy Werness

The Honorable Edmond E. Chang in the Northern District of Illinois found that “the record is clear that Shure—through its design choices—violated the injunction order by allowing integrators to install the MXA910-A in the enjoined flush configuration” and ordered additional discovery to determine “how widespread the violation is and what would be the appropriate relief arising from the violation.” We had previously obtained a preliminary injunction for ClearOne to cease sales of Shure’s MXA910 product in its infringing flush configuration.

ClearOne is a global company that designs and develops conferencing, collaboration, and networked streaming devices. Its customers include Boeing, Toyota, Netflix and Exxon.

This is another significant victory in the string of patent victories that we have achieved for ClearOne.

The Hueston Hennigan team included Douglas J. Dixon, Christy Rayburn, Sourabh Mishra, Neil Anderson, Karen Younkins, Michael Acquah, and Maxwell Coll.

Media coverage includes Law360, Bloomberg Law, and TVTechnology.

Judge Andrews accepted Hueston Hennigan’s arguments in full, finding that Peloton’s complaint had clearly, specifically and plausibly alleged that the inventions described in Peloton’s patents – relating to Peloton’s revolutionary leaderboard technology – were not well-understood, routine or conventional.

“We are very pleased with Judge Andrews’s decision denying in full Echelon’s motion to dismiss Peloton’s patent claims, and appreciate that he adopted our reasoning as well,” said Hueston Hennigan lead counsel. “We look forward to proceeding toward trial.”

In October 2019, Peloton filed a lawsuit in Delaware federal court against competitor Echelon for patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement and dilution, trade libel, false advertising and unfair business practices. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that Echelon’s bike product, and its related app, infringes Peloton’s patented leaderboard technology, and that Echelon is intentionally misleading consumers with false comparisons between the Echelon and Peloton bikes.

Earlier this year, Peloton successfully settled its patent litigation with Flywheel Sports, Inc., with Flywheel publicly admitting that it had copied the Peloton bike in creating its at-home bike, and that Peloton had solely invented the leaderboard technology at issue.

Peloton is represented by Christy Von der Ahe Rayburn, Karen Younkins and Maxwell Coll.