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12/11/07
A company that creates touch-screen technology has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against PC maker Dell Inc. and Motion Computing, Inc., a developer of tablet computers. The complaint, filed by Typhoon Touch Technologies, Inc., seeks an unspecified amount of damages and a permanent injunction enjoining Dell and Motion Computing from continued alleged infringement. The suit was filed Wednesday, Dec. 5, in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. Typhoon filed the suit as co-plaintiff with its licensee, Nova Mobility Systems, Inc., a maker of tablet personal computers and handheld systems. "As alleged in our complaint, we believe that both Dell and Motion Computing are using and profiting from our patented technologies," said James Shepard, CEO and president of Typhoon Touch Technologies. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:21:35 am into the following categories: In The News12/11/07
IBM reported Thursday that it filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission against Taiwan computer and components manufacturer ASUSTeK. The complaint alleges that ASUS and its North American subsidiary, ASUS Computer International, are infringing three IBM patents. The charge comes as the new ASUS ultra-mobile computer, the Eee PC, is reaching U.S. consumers. ASUS has said that it expects to sell 3.8 million units of the tiny computer. IBM said it made repeated attempts to reach a licensing agreement with ASUS before it filed the complaint. In a release, IBM said, "IBM's position has been -- and remains -- that ASUSTek either must license or stop using IBM's patented technology." Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:20:11 am into the following categories: In The News12/11/07
Intuitive Surgical Inc., which makes robotic surgical tools, said Monday the California Institute of Technology will dismiss its lawsuit against the company as part of a licensing deal. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Intuitive and the university entered a non-exclusive licensing deal under the university's patent portfolio. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. In January, the company said the university filed a lawsuit, claiming patent infringement. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:19:15 am into the following categories: In The News12/11/07
Novo Nordisk Inc. today announced the company has settled a lawsuit against Pfizer claiming 12/04/07
Klausner Technologies Inc. said Monday it filed a $460 million patent infringement suit against Apple Inc. over the company's iPhone Visual Voicemail feature. New York-based Klausner claims the iPhone infringes its intellectual property rights "by allowing users to selectively retrieve voice messages via the iPhone's inbox display." The company said founder Judah Klausner is "the inventor of the PDA and electronic organizer," and that Cupertino-based Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) defunct digital organizer Newton was covered under a patent it received more than 20 year ago. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:57:55 am into the following categories: In The News12/04/07
Celerity, Inc., a technology leader in precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions for the global semiconductor and electronics industries, announced today the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a permanent injunction in Celerity's patent infringement suit against Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. , and its subsidiary Ultra Clean Technology Systems and Service, Inc., Menlo Park, CA ("UCT"). The Court's order prohibits UCT from manufacturing, selling and importing any Predator or "colorably similar" products into the United States. In June, a unanimous jury validated Celerity's U.S. Patent Nos. 6,435,215 and 6,394,138, and found that UCT's Predator product infringed on Celerity's patented modular gas delivery technology used in semiconductor manufacturing and other related industries requiring high precision process control. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:56:43 am into the following categories: In The News12/04/07
A Massachusetts company has sued the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard. Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor, filed the lawsuit Thursday in the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Nigeria, where the company owns a patent for a four shift-key keyboard, said Adé Oyegbola, Lancor's CEO. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:56:09 am into the following categories: In The News12/04/07
Etrials will pay $1.75 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit with a Maryland firm. The Morrisville company, which provides software to help run clinical trials of drugs and medical devices, says the settlement means that it will have no future monetary obligations to the Maryland firm, Datasci LLC, which sued Etrials in 2006. The Datasci case is a quirk of the patent system, in which the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in 2002 essentially granted the company a patent on running clinical trials over the Internet - even though Etrials and other companies in the space had been doing just that for years. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:54:01 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, a federal appeals court has ruled. Z4 Technologies Inc. sued Microsoft and Autodesk Inc. (ADSK), maker of drafting software, in 2004, claiming the technology they used to activate newly installed software and deter piracy infringed on patents created and owned by David Colvin, the owner of privately held z4. Commerce Township, Mich.-based z4 argued that Microsoft's Windows XP and Office 2003 suite of productivity software used its patented method of asking computer users to supply two passwords, or authorization codes, before they could fully use new software. The technology in question also can be used to deactivate software. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:30:18 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
Ten million dollars. That's the amount Apple has agreed to pay software developer Burst in exchange for a non-exclusive license to most of the company's patent portfolio, excluding 3 pending U.S. patent applications related to new DVR technology. Oh, and Burst also promised not to sue Apple for any future infringement of these patents. After a prolonged two-year court battle, the two companies recently announced that the they settled their ongoing dispute, which had to do with a handful of audio and video delivery technologies. In 2004, Burst claimed that Apple's iPod, iTunes and Quicktime products used many of its audio and video patents and subsequently asked Apple to license them. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:28:12 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
CIBA Vision and CooperVision Inc. reported they have reached an agreement to settle patent litigation that resolves all current patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies. CIBA Vision, the Duluth, Ga.-based eye-care unit of Novartis, said it has licensed its so called "Nicolson" patents to CooperVision. This will enable both companies to move forward in bringing forth new and improved products. The Nicolson patents cover high-oxygen-transmissible contact lenses, including CIBA Vision's O2OPTIX AIR OPTIXand NIGHT & DAY silicone hydrogel contact lenses. In exchange, CooperVision will pay CIBA Vision a royalty on U.S. sales of its Biofinity contact lenses until 2014 and on sales outside of the United States until 2016. CIBA Vision also has licensed two types of patents from CooperVision related to contact lens designs. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:18:25 am into the following categories: In The News11/27/07
Cooper Cos., which is moving to Pleasanton from Lake Forest, said Wednesday that it settled a patent infringement lawsuit with rival Ciba Vision, the eye care unit of Switzerland’s Novartis AG. The settlement stems from Cooper and Novartis trading patent infringement suits in April 2006. CooperVision, Cooper’s dominant contact lens unit, said its suit against Ciba involved a pair of patents, one relating to features controlling contact lenses’ edge characteristics and another relating to design. Ciba alleged CooperVision infringed on patents relating to silicone hydrogel contact lenses. Under the settlement, CooperVision will pay a royalty to Novartis on domestic sales of its Biofinity contact lenses until 2014 and on international sales until 2016. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:16:51 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
A U.S. appeals court judge upheld a $140 million judgment Friday against Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement against David Colvin, a Commerce Township inventor and founder of z4Technologies Inc.Judge Elaine Bucklo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois upheld a lower court jury that ruled last year in Texas that Microsoft willfully infringed two of z4’s patents involving digital rights management in the Windows XP operating system. The jury awarded $115 million in damages, and Judge Leonard Davis added $25 million because of what he called litigation misconduct during the trial. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:11:16 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
Microsoft did not infringe on patents over technology that helps computers boot up faster, a Texas court ruled late last week after a seven-day trial. The suit, filed by Acceleration Software International Corp, claims that Microsoft infringed on United States patent 5933639, issued in 1999. The suit asked the court to award the patent holder $2.50 per copy of Windows XP sold in the United States, or between $600 million to $900 million. Microsoft argued that there are many ways to improve the boot speed of PCs and that Windows XP does not infringe on the technology in the patent. In addition, the jury also found that the patent is invalid because it was obvious and the technology already existed. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:10:24 am into the following categories: In The News11/20/07
"A little-known corporation from Newport Beach, California is suing Mac maker Apple Inc., alleging that a new version of the company's iChat video conferencing software infringes on patented technology through its use of custom video backdrops," Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. "In the 6-page complaint, filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, Digital Background Corporation claims that the Apple software infringes on its 1998 patent entitled 'Real-Time Method of Digitally Altering a Video Data Stream to Remove Portions of the Original Image and Substitute Elements to Create a New Image,'" Jade reports. Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:09:03 am into the following categories: In The News:: Next Page >> |
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