ParkerVision Granted Rule 54(b) Motion in Qualcomm Patent Case, Paving the Way for Immediate Federal Circuit Appeal

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[{"type":"text","content":"JACKSONVILLE, FL / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2025 / ParkerVision, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQB:PRKR), announced that on October 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando division ("district court") granted ParkerVision's Rule 54(b) motion in its patent infringement case against Qualcomm.","length":349,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"This decision clears the way for ParkerVision to immediately appeal the district court's May 29, 2025 claim construction ruling that led to the stipulated entry of summary judgment of non-infringement for ParkerVision's receiver patent claims under that claim construction ruling. The Company believes that the district court's most recent claim construction ruling was in error and contradicts last year's ruling from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") that reversed the district court's previously issued (March 2022) summary judgment order on the same receiver patents. The Federal Circuit's order also reversed the district court on all other issues on appeal.If the district court's claim construction ruling is reversed on appeal, as the Company believes it should be, then the stipulated summary judgement of non-infringement thereon will also be reversed.","length":931,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The district court's order also granted ParkerVision's request to stay the litigation with respect to the remaining transmitter patent claims that were not impacted by the claim construction order, pending the Federal Circuit's ruling on the appealed issues, thus avoiding the inefficiency of two separate trials.","length":325,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"ParkerVision Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey Parker, commented, "We filed our Rule 54(b) motion so that we could immediately seek Federal Circuit review to challenge the district court's claim construction ruling which we believe to be in error, which contradicts the Federal Circuit's prior order that was in our favor, and which we also believe to be inconsistent with the intrinsic evidence in the receiver patents themselves.","length":443,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""Following the September 2024 remand from the Federal Circuit, Qualcomm requested that the di...

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