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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
ShareMay 17 (Bloomberg) — TiVo Inc.’s patent-infringement victory against Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp. will get a second look by the court that hears appeals of patent cases.
The court said May 14 all active judges will take a second look at a panel’s March 4 finding that Dish and [...]
ShareGerman drugmaker Bayer has filed a patent infringement case against Cipla, the largest domestic drug seller, to stop the Mumbai-based company from selling its generic version of controversial cancer medicine Nexavar (chemical name Sorafenib Tosylate). The Delhi High Court has issued notice to Cipla and the next hearing is scheduled for April 23, Cipla’s lawyer [...]
ShareLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Canon today announced the resolution of a patent infringement lawsuit against Canada-based Densigraphix, concerning certain Densigraphix toner bottle products sold for use in Canon copier and multifunction products (MFP).
As a result of the lawsuit, Densigraphix has discontinued U.S. sales and manufacturing of its SKU #s CAGT657-U, CAGT658-U, CAGT672, CAGT674 and CAGT676 toner [...]
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Oosterhout – Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) is a highly-innovative partner within the printing industry. QIPC strives for perfection in the printing processes. For the printing industry, this means constant innovation and the ability to produce a higher quality of product, in a shorter time frame, and in a more cost effective manner. With the difficulties [...]
ShareEnzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) said today that a decision released Friday by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversing a district court’s summary judgment will enable the Company to pursue a claim for substantial damages against Applera Corporation, now Life Technologies Corporation. (NASDAQ: LIFE). The Court of Appeals vacated the lower court’s judgments [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
ShareInfineon Technologies has announced that the company and its subsidiary Infineon Technologies North America filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against Elpida Memory on February 19, 2010.
The complaint asserts that Elpida has engaged in unfair trade practices by making for importation into the US, and selling after importation, certain DRAM semiconductors [...]
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, [...]