IPNews® – Broadcom was recently granted a permanent injunction against Emulex for infringing on two of its U.S. patents.
The Southern California based companies have settled on damages and a sunset period has been set to discontinue sales. Emulex has initiated a redesign and will pay royalties to Broadcom on all of the infringing products
IPNews® – Oprah Winfrey was able to convince a judge that she is not guilty of stealing the trademarked phrase ‘Own Your Power’ as it was used on the cover of her O Magazine.
The lawsuit, filed by life coach and business owner Simone Kelly-Brown, alleged that Winfrey infringed her trademark by featuring the phrase
IPNews® – A group representing 25% of the nation’s farmers is suing agricultural chemical manufacturer Monsanto Company in a preemptive lawsuit.
The lawsuit follows years of patent infringement claims by Monsanto against the companies. The farmers are not seeking any monetary damages. Instead they are attempting to have Monsanto’s corn seed patent invalidated, claiming that
IPNews® – The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has rejected all four applications by a Canadian marketing company to register the term “CrackBerry” as a trademark.
The judge’s decision was based on evidence provided by BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion that, if the term was to be trademarked, a likelihood of confusion would be created with