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Flying Heliball indirect patent infringement claims again dismissed in US

By Nick Robertson ( April 22, 2025, 22:51 GMT | Insight) -- A US judge in the Central District of California yesterday dismissed Flying Heliball’s claims of contributory and induced patent infringement against toymaker Zero Cloud One Intelligent Technology for a second time. Judge Fred Slaughter said the plaintiff failed to prove willful blindness, dooming the secondary infringement theories of liability against its Chinese rival.US Judge Fred Slaughter of the Central District of California dismissed most claims against Chinese toymaker Zero Cloud One Intelligent Technology in a patent suit brought by American rival Flying Heliball yesterday, writing that Flying Heliball failed to prove the defendant was willfully blind to Flying Heliball’s patents....

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