Technology and innovation watch
ShareMONTREAL – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion likely decided to settle a patent infringement case with a U.S. technology company to avoid losing any market share to competitors Apple and Google, say analysts.
Prism Technologies has reached a settlement and licensing agreement with RIM (TSX:RIM) involving authentication systems on BlackBerrys such as the Curve 8330. Terms [...]
ShareBid for Position has lost an appeal to a ruling that its bidding system patent was not infringed by Google’s or AOL’s search advertising purchasing system. The decision of the lower court was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week.
Bid for Position owns rights to US Patent #7,225,151, titled “Online [...]
ShareFormer processor startup MicroUnity Systems Engineering (Santa Clara, Calif.) filed suit Tuesday (March 16) alleging 22 of the world’s top cellphone companies including chip, system and service providers infringe 15 of its patents. The suit, one of the broadest in recent memory, in some cases seeks treble damages claiming willful [...]
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Microsoft isn’t the name that comes to mind when you think of the world’s most inventive tech company. But if you measure inventiveness by the quality and usefulness of patents, Microsoft tops the tech world, according to three different reports in the last few months.
The IEEE Spectrum Patent Scorecard rates Microsoft [...]
ShareXerox has set its sights on search giants Google and Yahoo! after filing suits against the companies alleging patent infringement.
As reported over on ARN, the company – which pioneered many of the technologies used in modern computing in its famous Palo Alto Research Centre – is accusing Google and Yahoo of infringing US Patent No. [...]
ShareA local Web site design company is suing search engine giant Google, alleging the company infringed on its trademarks.
Firefly Digital, a Web site design, development and hosting company, states in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that it owns both state and federal trademarks for its “Web site Gadget” and “Gadget,” a [...]
ShareA jury of eight concluded Tuesday that Google Inc. did not infringe on Function Media’s ‘025 and ‘059 patents as the patent infringement case concluded Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. “It’s a good feeling,” expressed an attorney for Google after hearing the verdict. “We’re very happy with this [...]
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Apple and Google joining hands?
The iPhone is about to see a shuffle of its applications: Apple and Microsoft are in talks (together!) to do away with Google as the default search engine on Apple’s smartphone and replace it with Bing.
BusinessWeek is reporting that this deal has been undergoing talks for weeks now amid a brewing [...]