In a verdict delivered today after a seven-day trial in U.S. District Court, a federal jury has awarded
CollegeNET $1.2 million in damages for infringement of its Universal Forms
Engine patents (#6,345,278 and #6,460,042) by ApplyYourself, Inc. The jury
determined that both accused systems of ApplyYourself, including its
current i-Class systems, infringed both patents. The i-Class system was
found to infringe all 44 claims of the '042 patent, and all but three of
the asserted claims of the '278 patent. The jury also found that
ApplyYourself's infringement of the '278 patent was "willful."
Prior to the trial, XAP Corporation of Los Angeles and ApplyYourself
entered into a joint defense agreement to seek invalidation of CollegeNET's
patents. During the trial, ApplyYourself asserted invalidity of
CollegeNET's '278 patent by relying on testimony regarding XAP's CSUMentor
admissions system. The jury rejected ApplyYourself's arguments that
CSUMentor constituted invalidating prior art.
The two patents describe and claim a wide range of features important to
outsourced ASP forms processing for institutions of higher education. The
five inventors on these patents were CollegeNET employees who helped
develop CollegeNET's leading web-based admissions system.
The Portland firms of Klarquist, Sparkman and Stoll, Stoll, and Schlacter
represented CollegeNET, Inc.
About CollegeNET, Inc.
CollegeNET, Inc. (corp.collegenet.com) is focused on providing technologies
that save institutions money and improve educational access and
affordability for citizens. The company provides innovations in event and
academic scheduling, admissions, web-based tuition processing, prospect
management, alumni development and email management to colleges,
universities and nonprofits worldwide. More than 1,000 institutions
including University of Washington, University of Kansas, Cal Tech, Case
Western Reserve, and Virginia Tech now use CollegeNET e-solutions. The
company is headquartered in Portland, Ore.
Inquiries should be made to:
Anton Leof, Corporate Counsel, CollegeNET, telephone: (503) 973-5258;
facsimile: (503) 973-5252
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