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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
ShareJohnson & Johnson said Monday Boston Scientific Corp. will pay the company $1.73 billion to settle two suits related to patents for stents.
Boston Scientific will pay Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis unit $1 billion today and $725 million next January.
Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, N.J., said it expects to post [...]
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Apple’s iPad is barely a day old, and it’s already facing legal troubles. Not terribly surprising, as “iPad” is hardly original — and Apple has a history of stealing names that are registered trademarks of other companies.
Japanese electronics company Fujitsu built a handheld computing device in 2002 — complete with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, [...]
ShareDrug major Merck & Co said Tuesday that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled against the company in a patent infringement suit against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. The suit is related to Merck’s chemotherapeutic agent Temodar’s patent.
The company said that in the ruling, Judge Sue Robinson said that Merck’s patent on [...]
ShareMarkets for nano-based energy storage products are expected to take off from 2012. Robust sales growth opportunities are expected for nanotechnology based rechargeable batteries (Lithium-ion) and ultracapacitors as these energy storage products are expected to be the early adopters of nanomaterials in their production. The global nanotechnology enhanced energy storage products market is in the [...]
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Based on the level of innovative activity in the 3-D space, it appears we may soon be watching 3-D commercials on our flat-screen televisions and paging through 3-D memories of our children in photo albums.
While the blockbuster hits from the likes of Pixar and DreamWorks have commanded the most attention for 3-D in the popular [...]