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Samsung may join LG in NZ patent fight

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 [...]

TiVo, Deere, Home Depot: Intellectual Property (Update1)

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 [...]

Honeywell accuses Memsic of patent violation

ShareHoneywell International Inc. is suing Memsic Inc. in Boston District Court over the Andover micro-electrical systems maker’s technology using magnetic sensors, accusing the local company of patent infringement.
Memsic is a player making electronic sensors like the accelerometers used in GPS devices, digital cameras and mobile phones, while Honeywell produces magnetic sensors used in navigation, position control [...]

MicroUnity sues mobile giants for patent infringement Broad suit names 22 companies and 15 processor patents

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 [...]

IEEE spectrum patent scorecard launched

ShareThe surprise story of this edition of the IEEE Spectrum Patent Power Scorecards is the reemergence of Japan as a global leader in innovation. Based on data from 2009, out of the 323 leading organizations in the scorecards, 65 (20 percent) are Japanese. This percentage is markedly higher than in the 2007 [...]

VirnetX flings second patent infringement sueball at Microsoft

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 [...]

Court ruling unleashes flood of ‘false mark’ patent lawsuits

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 [...]

Xerox Sues Google, Yahoo! for Patent Infringement

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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 [...]

Apple sues HTC for patent infringement!

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 [...]

Schweitzer-Mauduit Announces Patent Infringement Action

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, [...]

Bayer may move Supreme Court on sorafenib patents even as Cipla prepares to launch generic Nexavar in India

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 [...]

TecSec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against IBM, SAP, SUN, eBay, Adobe, Cisco, Oracle, and Others

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 [...]

W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Amerigon

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. [...]

LORD Corporation files Patent Infringement Suit Against Active Shock LORD Corporation

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 [...]