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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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ShareI was intrigued to hear the prime minister announce that the UK Intellectual Property Office is to introduce a “fast-track” scheme to tackle the backlog of patent applications, which “costs the global economy an estimated £7.6bn a year”. Sadly this seems to be an early example of the new government announcing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]