San Hitec

San Hitec

Israeli Supreme Court recently upholds ruling on non-infringement based on Dr. Marganit Goldraich’s expert patent attorney witness opinion.  

San Hitec Ltd., as well as the Israeli Ministry of Defense, was sued several years ago by Hydro-Noa, a company that holds an Israeli patent for breaking an entry device adapted for military purposes. Hydro-Noa got the patent through an expedite procedure before the ILPTO. Immediately after, Hydro-Noa sued San and the Israel Ministry of Defense for infringing its patent.

San Hitec was represented in court by advocate Yossi Haham, that based the defense against the alleged infringement sue on opinion of Dr. Marganit Goldraich, that first established there was no infringement due to lack of a revolving ring in Sun’s breaking device (read more) ; the revolving ring was one of the elements in the independent claim; and second, that the patent is not valid due to prior art that was not revealed in an IDS to the ILPTO during prosecution. The main prior art were Holmatro systems that were widely used by the Israeli Defense Force before using San’s breaking systems. The judges of the Supreme Court upheld the ruling of Judge Dr. Zarenkin of the district court that expressed his appreciation from the professional opinion and sincere testimony of Dr. Goldraich.  (News item from January 2014).

(San Hitec, Dr. Marganit Goldraich expert witness for one of their products)