A federal jury in Boston found Cambridge, MA-based Vlingo’s speech recognition software did not infringe on a patent owned by Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: [[ticker:NUAN]]), the companies said in two separate announcements (here and here). Burlington, MA-based Nuance has alleged that Vlingo has infringed on a number of its patents, but this particular patent, 6,766,295, covers the technique for making computerized transcription of a users’ speech more accurate over time using audio samples from multiple sessions. The jury of the Federal District Court in Boston found that Vlingo did not infringe on any of the 30 claims Nuance had alleged in this particular patent case, but it did find that the Nuance patent was valid—Vlingo had claimed it was not.
Author: Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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