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Feb 24

Supreme Court to Decide on Review of World Jump Rope … – Morning Chalk Up

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After filing a patent infringement suit against Rogue Fitness in 2018, world jump rope champion and the owner of CrossFit Untapped in Louisville, CO, Molly Metz, is hopeful she might finally get her moment in court.

On February 24, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to review Metz case against Rogue Fitness, which was dropped when her two patents were invalidated in 2020.

Remind me: Metz is the owner of Jump Rope Systems, LLC, a Colorado-based company that was awarded patents 7,789,809 and 8,136,208 in 2010 and 2012 respectively, and who went on to file a patent infringement suit against Rogue Fitness in 2018 claiming Rogue stole their jump rope technology.

What happened next: In 2020, Metz case was sent to an administrative court (common to patent lawsuits) which led to her patents being invalidated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), something Metz blames on the America Invents Act, a bill that was passed by Congress in 2011 and has led to thousands of patents being invalidated since 2011.

Metz was devastated to lose something she worked so hard for, something she spent four years trying to achieve.

But she never got this right, as her patents were stripped from her before she had the chance to fight.

Where she is today: Metz filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, and today she isnt trying to regain her invalidated patents, but she is hoping for compensation for the damages incurred during the years prior to 2020 when her patents were valid.

His argument did enough to persuade the Supreme Court, so on February 24, Metz is supposed to find out whether the Supreme Court will reconsider her case. If they do, shes hoping shell finally get her day in district court.

Metz message: From 2018 until now, Metz has sunk $500,000 of her own money into the suit because shes passionate about protecting the rights of small business owners and inventors like herself.

But for Metz, the case isnt just about her. She feels like shes fighting for all the hard working small business owners who worked hard to build something only to have it stripped away from them.

Our country is made off of innovation. Its what brought us to where we are today, Metz said. I wont get my patents back, no. So were kind of fighting for everyone else when we go to DC.

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