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ShareOnline auctioneer EBay Inc. (EBAY: News ) has been sued for at least $3.8 billion by Connecticut-based XPRT Ventures LLC, which has accused the e-commerce giant of infringing six patents to develop online payment systems such as PayPal.
According to the lawsuit filed by by XPRT in theU.S. District Court in Delaware, eBay unfairly stole information shared in [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
ShareLORD Corporation files Patent Infringement Suit Against Active Shock LORD Corporation – a leader in vibration and control products and motion solutions for defense, aerospace and commercial markets – has filed a lawsuit in 2009 against impact assets in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Â [...]
ShareLONDON and PALO ALTO, California, February 8 – Silence Therapeutics plc (AIM: SLN) today announced that the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued the company a notice of
allowance on a patent application directed to methods of treatment using a
high-value therapeutic target in the area of oncology. Known as PKN-3, the
target is [...]
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Sharp and Samsung have put nearly three years of battling over LCD panel and module patents behind them with a deal that ends all ongoing patent infringement disputes, they said Monday.
Both companies declined to disclose details of the agreement.
“We have a confidentiality agreement but we can say these conditions will be [...]
ShareNice timing, Acacia Research Corporation. The mother of all patent trolls patent acquisition, development and licensing company, which was profiled in depth by BusinessWeek just two days ago, this morning announced that it has been awarded a total of $12.4 million in a patent infringement case against Yahoo.
On May 15th, 2009, [...]
ShareAuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), the world’s leading provider of smart fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced that it has filed legal claims today against UPEK, Inc. for the infringement of five AuthenTec patents [...]
SharePhoenix Technologies, (Nasdaq: PTEC), the global leader in core systems software, security solutions and instant-on operating systems, today announced it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against DeviceVM, Inc.
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In its complaint, filed today in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Phoenix alleges DeviceVM is infringing on [...]