October 2013 - LTL Attorneys LLP

South San Francisco, CA — October 20, 2013

Lee Tran Liang & Wang LLP (LTLW) announces the expansion and relocation of its Northern California office to 601 Gateway Blvd., Suite 1010, South San Francisco, CA 94080. Phone numbers and emails remain the same.

LTLW opened its Northern California office in Redwood City just two years ago and during that time, it has tripled its attorney headcount. The new office, strategically located between Silicon Valley and San Francisco, is ideal to serve LTLW’s growing client base of both technology and traditional enterprises located across Northern California. The office will continue to focus on intellectual property litigation matters as well as other complex business disputes.

“We are very excited by our growth, which can only be attributed to our clients’ incredible support. We look forward to continuing to exceed our clients’ expectations,” said name partner Enoch Liang, who manages the office.

Los Angeles, CA — October 10, 2013

Lee Tran Liang & Wang LLP (LTLW) scored another patent victory for client VIZIO, Inc. against an infringement lawsuit brought by plaintiff and non-practicing entity, Oplus Technologies, Ltd. On October 3, 2013, the Hon. Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment of invalidity and non-infringement on two patents held by Oplus in favor of VIZIO.

In this case, filed in December 2011, Oplus alleged that certain VIZIO televisions infringed 10 patent claims from two patents related to methods of video signal processing, particularly deinterlacing and error correction. Video processing in the accused televisions is performed by chipsets contained in VIZIO televisions, and the methods and algorithms used therein are trade secrets of the third-party manufacturers of the chipsets. The Court found, as argued by VIZIO, that there was a complete absence of evidence to support either direct or indirect infringement by VIZIO. The Court also found that every element of one of the patents was described in a prior art publication, and therefore the patent was invalid.

“We are extremely pleased by the court’s findings,” said LTLW name partner Enoch Liang. “This victory marks LTLW’s second Summary Judgment victory this year for VIZIO, in patent infringement cases brought by patent trolls. We will continue to voraciously defend VIZIO against shakedown and meritless lawsuits that have no application to VIZIO products.”

VIZIO was represented by LTLW and Glaser Weil.

Oplus was represented by Chicago patent troll firm Niro Heller & Niro.