According to a press release by Lanier, the judgment signed Nov. 19, 2009, by Judge T. John Ward in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that McKinney, Texas-based NetMass Inc. infringed three different online storage and computing patents owned by Prust, including US Patent No. 6,714,968; No. 6,735,623; and No. 6,952,724. The judgment also includes a permanent injunction that orders NetMass to cease the company’s infringement of the three patents in the future.

Christopher D. Banys, who leads The Lanier Law Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group, represented Prust along with firm founder Mark Lanier and firm attorney Hogene Choi. Attorneys from the Tyler, Texas, law firm of Ireland, Carroll & Kelley served as local counsel for Prust.

“We are extremely pleased to have resolved this matter in favor of Mr. Prust,” said Banys, managing attorney of The Lanier Law Firm’s office in Palo Alto, California. “The patents in this litigation represent the building blocks for some of today’s most sophisticated online applications, and we will continue to help our client protect his interests in these valuable patents.”

Prust invented the methods covered in each of the three patents, and filed applications for all three in February 2000. The three patents also are the subject of another pending lawsuit filed by Prust against computer giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: APPL).

That case, Mitchell Prust v. Apple Inc., No. 2:09-cv-92, is pending in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The case against NetMass is Mitchell Prust v. Softlayer Technologies Inc., et al., No. 2:09-cv-236.

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