Citing a “Culture of Disdain for Patent Holders”, Quartz Auto Seeks Injunctive Relief After Jury Verdict

A Western District of Texas jury has found five claims of a single patent infringed and not proven invalid, awarding Quartz Auto Technologies, LLC $1.05M from Lyft. Quartz has since filed a motion asking Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright for a permanent injunction as to one of two accused use cases for that patent, citing a post-verdict Lyft press release as “unbelievable” because in it, Lyft is in “effect . . . celebrating the jury’s finding that Lyft violated United States patent law for six years straight as a ‘Strategic Jury Verdict’”. Quartz has also moved to amend its complaint in the case to add a patent related to the infringed one, further requesting a preliminary injunction as to that patent.