Case Summary:

NimbeLink Corp., a subsidiary of Airgain that develops Skywire cellular modem technology, sued Digi International Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota alleging that certain Digi Internet of Things connectivity products infringed two NimbeLink patents related to its Skywire cellular modems, U.S. Patent Nos. 9,497,570 and 9,838,066. In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, NimbeLink asserted these patent claims and also brought contract-based claims, but the district court later dismissed the contract claims and, on March 14, 2024, issued a ruling finding all of NimbeLink’s asserted patent claims invalid, prompting NimbeLink to appeal that patent judgment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case captioned NimbeLink Corp. v. Digi International Inc., No. 24-2292, where oral argument ha ...