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ShareSecurity Finjan claims that its competitors,McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, Webroot Software Websense and violates two patents. This should be addressed to the District Court of Delaware Monday has submitted an application.
It is therefore necessary to Finjan damages and order five companies should prohibit the sale of allegedly infringing software copyright Finjan.
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ShareIn a Friday statement, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) revealed that it intends investigating the complaint filed by HTC, in which the Taiwanese phone maker has accused Apple of infringing on five of its patents pertaining to handset technology. The ITC said that it will investigate whether HTC’s request, seeking a ban on the import and [...]
ShareNEW ZEALAND screen and monitor technology company PureDepth is seeking an injunction to enforce its patents against the Asian giants of the television and monitor market, including Korean giant LG.
PureDepth, whose majority 52% owner is Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall’s investment vehicle K1W1, is taking on a company called NCP Trading in the High Court at [...]
ShareIndustrial heavyweights General Electric Co. and Mitsubishi are raising the temperature of a 2-year-old dispute claiming patent infringements and monopolistic behavior in the U.S. wind turbine market.
In a complaint filed in a U.S. District Court in Arkansas yesterday, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries accused GE of scheming to control the nation’s wind power [...]
ShareMicrosoft announced that it would pay $200 million to settle a patent-infringement suit leveled against it by VirnetX, which builds communication and collaboration technologies, including a method for establishing secure communication links between computers on a virtual network. In March, a Texas jury had found that Microsoft infringed on two [...]
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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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Greatbatch by vacating an August 2008 patent infringement verdict regarding surgical introducers. This decision overturns the original $1.1 million of damages awarded against the Company.
“We are very pleased by the appellate court’s decision, which reflects how we conduct [...]
ShareA company which won a $100+ million payout from Microsoft this week is applying for an upgrade. VirnetX, which won cases involving XP and Vista is now bringing similar claims over Windows 7.
The cases involved patents on virtual private networks, which are effectively networks built on top of existing networks, usually with a higher level [...]
ShareThomas Simonian filed 28 lawsuits last week.
The barrage of suits, all filed in Chicago federal court, involve an obscure section of the U.S. patent laws dealing with marking a product with its patent number.
Though consumers probably don’t notice the fine print, it’s common to list the patent number on product packaging. Patent owners who do [...]
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Online magazine informationweek reported Tuesday that Xerox (NYSE:XRX) has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Google’s youtube video site over disputed Internet search and e-commerce technology. Xerox alleges that Google’s adwords and adsense software infringe on its patent “System for automatically generating queries.” In addition, Xerox claims Google Maps and Google [...]
ShareFor Apple’s legal team, it seems three is the magic number. Not content with counter suing Nokia and being sued by Kodak, Apple have launched yet another law suit this time against Taiwanese smartphone manufacturers HTC. The reason? Patent infringement. Or so Apple has alleged.
Yes, following ongoing legal wranglings with Nokia and Kodak, the Cupertino [...]
ShareSchweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (NYSE: SWM) today announced its filing of a patent infringement action on February 8, 2010, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division. The suit was filed against the following parties as defendants:
Delfort Group, an Austrian corporation
Astra Tobacco Corporation, [...]
ShareThe German drug major Bayer AG is planning to move India’s Supreme Court seeking protection for its Nexavar (sorafenib) even as Cipla prepares for the launch of a generic version of the kidney cancer drug in a couple of months time following the Delhi High Court’s latest verdict upholding an earlier [...]
ShareHunton & Williams LLP and DiNovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy LLP filed a patent infringement suit on behalf of client TecSec, Incorporated against several of the world’s leading technology companies. The defendants include IBM, SAS Institute, SAP, Cisco, SUN Microsystems, Sybase, Software AG, Adobe, eBay, PayPal, and Oracle. The suit [...]
ShareW.E.T. Automotive Systems AG (Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), a global leader in thermal comfort for the automotive industry, today announced that its subsidiary Windsor, Ontario, Canada-based W.E.T. [...]