IPNews® – VirnetX Holding Corp. filed a new patent infringement complaint against Apple Inc. on Monday in the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging the tech giant wrongly poached VirnetX’s wireless security technology for its latest iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers.
Science Applications International Corp., which sold VirnetX part of its patent portfolio in 2006
IPNews® – A German regional chamber of commerce sued Martha Stewart, her company, Emeril Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network last week for infringing its trademark for the name “Solingen” as it relates to knives and other cutlery.
Cutlery bearing the protected Solingen name is by law supposed to be made only in Solingen, Germany
IPNews® – A U.S. International Trade Commission judge on Friday delivered Apple Inc. its latest win in its patent war with Samsung Electronics Co.
None of the accused devices Apple is importing into the U.S. infringe Samsung’s patents, Administrative Law Judge James Gildea’s initial determination in Samsung’s Section 337 case against Apple said. To continue
IPNews® – A group of University of Texas at Austin scientists announced Wednesday that they have patented a new type of nuclear reactor that could eventually provide a method of transforming toxic nuclear waste into useable fuel.
Mike Kotschenreuther, Prashant Valanju and Swadesh Mahajan, physicists at UT’s College of Natural Sciences, said their hybrid fission-fusion
IPNews® – Eastman Kodak Co. told a New York bankruptcy court Friday that it would put its plans to sell off its digital imaging patent assets on hold until further notice, given its difficulty soliciting high enough bids, and could potentially license the patents instead.
Kodak has been trying to auction off its patent portfolio
IPNews® – Libya does not have valid, protectable trademarks for the names of its embassy, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled last week, foreclosing on the nation’s challenge to an individual’s registration of domain names using the terms “Libyan Embassy” and “Embassy of Libya.”
The individual, Ahmad Miski, works as a third party expeditor
IPNews® – Zillow Inc. accused its rival real estate information website operator Trulia Inc. on Wednesday of ripping off its patented method for automatically refining home valuations based on input from homeowners and other users.
The complaint in Seattle federal court alleges that Trulia.com’s “Trulia Estimates” service introduced in September 2011 infringes a patent Zillow
IPNews® – Frank Sinatra’s estate on Wednesday successfully blocked the trademark application of a hot dog truck owner seeking to register the trademark “Franks Anatra.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board threw out Bill Loizon’s application to register the trademark in relation to catering of food and drink, in response
IPNews® – Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Walt Disney Co. are the targets of new patent infringement lawsuits the Regents of the University of California filed on Wednesday over interactive hypermedia technology.
All three companies are allegedly using patented university technology for displaying interactive information through web pages or software, the university claims in
IPNews® – A California federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Amazon.com Inc. in OIP Technologies Inc.’s patent infringement suit alleging the world’s largest online retailer used OIP’s technology for an automated online commerce pricing system without authorization.
OIP sued Amazon in March alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Number 7,970,713, titled “Method and apparatus