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01/03/06
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Rates Technology, a little-known patent-holding company with a history of filing suits against large technology companies, said it will seek $5 billion in damages from Google based on unpaid royalties from a patent infringement lawsuit RTI filed against Google in New York. RTI is suing Google in U.S. District Court in New York’s Eastern District for infringement of patent 5,425,085, which governs the routing of VoIP calls in Google Talk, a VoIP and instant-messaging application. RTI, based in Smithtown, New York, is also suing Google based on another patent, 5,519,769, which relates to inventions for minimizing the cost of telephone calls. The company is seeking an injunction against Google for all commercial activity pertaining to Google Talk. "We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously,” said Google spokesman Steve Langdon. In the past two years several companies, including network equipment suppliers, software developers, and application services companies, have added VoIP capabilities. So basic is RTI’s VoIP-routing patent that hundreds of companies could be subject to legal action from RTI. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:17:54 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
BlackBerry e-mail service provider Research In Motion Ltd. said on Friday the U.S. patent office has ruled against two more NTP Inc. patents in their fight over the popular service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued "non-final actions" rejecting claims for two NTP patents involved in the dispute with RIM, which has faced a shutdown of its service in the United States, RIM said. "The Patent Office's latest rulings corroborate RIM's long-standing contention that the NTP patents are invalid and the rulings also demonstrate that the Patent Office is acting with special dispatch to address the court's concern and the public interest, Mark Guibert, RIM's vice president of corporate marketing, said in a statement. Closely held NTP, a patent holding company, successfully sued RIM for patent infringement in 2002. It later won an injunction, stayed pending appeal, to halt sales of RIM's BlackBerry device and service in the United States. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:16:29 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
Padcom, Inc., a leading wireless mobile VPN provider, filed a declaratory judgment action today against competitor, NetMotion Wireless, Inc., of Seattle. Padcom’s suit alleges a recently issued patent assigned to NetMotion is invalid, unenforceable and not infringed. The suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Delaware, where another action is pending between the two companies in which Padcom alleges NetMotion infringes three of its patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,418,324, 6,198,920 and 6,826,405 (Civil Action No. 03-983). The technology of these patents relates to Padcom’s TotalRoam® software solutions, including TotalRoam® Mobile Virtual Network (MVN), which enable roaming across multiple active dissimilar networks. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:15:10 am into the following categories: In The News01/03/06
General Patent Corporation International ( GPCI ) announced an important victory in its patent enforcement campaign on behalf of Advanced Card Technologies LLC ( ACT ). The reexamination of two of ACT’s patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) resulted in an affirmation of validity of these two patents with approximately two hundred new claims being issued. The reexamination proceedings at the Patent Office were initiated in response to a patent infringement law suit brought by the prior owner of ACT’s patents, a pioneer in card technology, SSI Technologies. Reexamination was requested for ACT’s U.S. Patent Nos. 5,720,158 ( “Information Card Package” ) and 5,921,584 ( “Card Display Package” ). The patents generally relate to packages for cards that have a magnetic stripe, such as gift, phone, and other types of cards. During the reexaminations, the new claims were found to be patentable over numerous patents and publications which were brought to the attention of the Patent Office. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:12:39 am into the following categories: In The News
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