IPNews® – The Federal Circuit ruled Friday that even when many different parties perform the different steps of a patented method, induced patent infringement can still exist.
The decision means Akamai Technologies Inc. will now be able to again pursue its online content delivery system patent claims against Limelight Networks Inc. McKesson Corp.’s doctor-patient electronic
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that Marilyn Monroe’s estate cannot claim a posthumous California state law right of publicity for the famed actress’s likeness.
The estate has argued for decades in various other proceedings that Monroe was living in New York when she died, not California, so New York law must govern based
IPNews® – An inventor smacked Ford Motor Co. with a patent infringement lawsuit Wednesday alleging the auto maker’s F-150 pickup truck includes his patented fuel injection system.
TMC Fuel Systems LLC gave Ford multiple opportunities to license the technology, but Ford chose not to do so and is now infringing the patent as a result
IPNews® – A California federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Kim Kardashian’s right of publicity lawsuit against The Gap Inc. for allegedly using a Kardashian lookalike in an Old Navy television commercial.
Kardashian’s attorneys notified the court on Friday that the matter had been settled. The reality television star alleged in 2011 that the commercial starring
IPNews® – Google Inc. was issued a patent Tuesday for technology enabling automatic object recognition in online videos.
The patent, titled “Automatic large scale video object recognition,” involves a system that learns from exposure to visual content items by comparing data between different “feature vectors.” The system can use those vectors to accurately predict the
IPNews® – Filmmaker Sam Raimi’s Renaissance Pictures Ltd. won a permanent injunction last week barring a rival film production company from trading on the name of Raimi’s cult classic Evil Dead films.
The default judgment in California federal court last Friday shut down Award Pictures LLC’s stated plans to make unauthorized sequels to Raimi’s original
IPNews® – A federal judge on Thursday shot down Ashley Furniture Industries Inc.’s bid to defeat the estate of Humphrey Bogart’s claims that the furniture maker had violated the late actor’s trademark rights.
Ashley sold a line of furniture called “Bogart Ocean” without authorization from 2008 to 2009, according to the estate. The judge found
IPNews® – Apple obtained a patent on Tuesday for a method of automatically triggering settings on a wireless device like an iPhone or iPad based on the device’s location.
The patent, titled “Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device,” allows for ways of changing device settings when an event occurs like
IPNews® – LivingSocial Inc. was smacked with a patent infringement lawsuit on Friday at the hands of Blue Calypso Inc., a digital word-of-mouth marketing company.
Blue Calypso alleges the popular online deal company is infringing two patents related to peer-to-peer advertising. Blue Calypso also sued Groupon over the same two patents last month. To continue
IPNews® – A recently unveiled patent issued to Google Inc. last year for methods of gathering computerized data via touch sensors could pave the way for a glove that allows users to digitally interact with their environment with their hands.
The patent is titled “Seeing with your hands,” and covers various methods for collecting images