Opinion

Weisner v. Google LLC

Court
District Court, S.D. New York
Filed
Nov 12, 2024
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 32.9%

The opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

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SHOLEM WEISNER, :

>: QRDER DENYING

Plaintiff, : GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR

-against- RECONSIDERATION

□ 20 Civ. 2862 (AKH)

GOOGLE LLC and SHMUEL NEMANOV,

Defendant and Involuntary Party.

ALVINK.HELLERSTEIN,USDJ:

I deny Google’s motion for reconsideration of my August 22, 2024 decision denying

summary judgment. “A motion for reconsideration is not a motion to reargue those issues

already considered when a party does not like the way the original motion was resolved.” Zn re

Facebook Inc., IPO Sec. & Derivative Litig., 43 F. Supp. 3d 369, 374 (S.D.N.Y. 2014).

Moreover, “the standard for granting a motion for reconsideration is strict, and reconsideration

will generally be denied unless the moving party can point to controlling decisions or data that

the court overlooked.” Analytical Surveys, Inc. v. Tonga Partners, L.P., 684 F.3d 36, 41 (2d Cir.

2012).

Here, Google has failed to meet these strictures. Instead, it argues issues raised—and

rejected—in its previous motion for summary judgment. See ECF No, 199. Google avers that

Plaintiff lacks proof of Google’s infringement of the ‘905 patent since Plaintiff’s evidence of a

limitation concerned a feature that was removed before the patent issued. But this is subject to a

dispute of material fact, and accordingly, I cannot hold that a jury could not find infringement.

See Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986); Roe v. City of Waterbury, 542

F.3d 31, 35 (2d Cir. 2008). Google’s argument regarding claim construction of the two patents

fares no better. Its renewed efforts to narrow the scope of the patents defies the language of the

patents’ written descriptions and lacks merit. Accordingly, Google’s motion for reconsideration

is denied.

The Clerk of Court shall terminate ECF No, 239.

SO ORDERED. oy

Dated: November [£2024 f ha fa 7 1 “Mee Sah nee

New York, New York “/ ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN

/ United States District Judge

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