Case No. 2:04cv211 (August 16, 2006). The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas denied plaintiff, Paice LLC's request for a permanent injunction in a patent infringement suit against the hybrid cars of Kenyon & Kenyon client, Toyota Motor Corporation. Plaintiff claimed that Toyota's hybrid cars infringed ten claims in three of Plaintiff's patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,343,970 (the "'970 patent"), 6,209,672 (the "'672 patent") and 6,554,088 (the "'088 patent"). The jury found that none of the ten claims were literally or willfully infringed, and that only two of the claims in one patent, claims 11 and 39 of the '970 patent, were infringed under the doctrine of equivalents. The jury also found that Paice was only entitled to a small fraction of the damages it sought for the two claims found infringed by equivalents. Toyota has appealed from the judgment finding two claims infringed, and plaintiff is expected to appeal the denial of its request for an injunction.