IPNews® – Korg Inc., Yamaha Inc. and Diasonic Technology Co. came under assault in San Diego federal court Monday from a company based there alleging the musical instrument and equipment makers are violating its patent rights in a technology for using flash memory in recording devices.
The accused products include Yamaha’s Pocketrak CX, C24, W24
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. has infringed four Apple Inc. patents for smartphone and tablet technology, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission administrative law judge’s initial ruling published Wednesday.
The patents found to be infringed cover headphone audio plug connector and touch screen technology, while certain other patents Apple asserted, including one for the
IPNews® – Tiffany LLC accused a Texas-based online retailer on Monday of infringing its trademarks by selling counterfeit jewelry.
Olga Sanchez, who operates Bag Fashion Under God, Elegant Bags, BagFashionMore.com and BagFashionSpa.com, is directly and personally engaging in the sale of counterfeit products, Tiffany says. The company is seeking $2 million in damages per trademark
IPNews® – The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co. abused its market position and acted anti-competitively with respect to its licensing commitments for its standard-essential patents, Apple Inc. said Monday.
The DOJ has joined the European Commission in looking into whether Samsung violated its commitments to license the standard-essential patents it
IPNews® – A three-judge Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday issued an affirmation of a patent rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but called for an en banc rehearing to clarify the standard of review the appeals court should apply to the PTAB’s claim construction rulings.
The appeal concerned
IPNews® – A court in the Netherlands ruled once again on Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphones and tablets do not infringe Apple Inc.’s European patent for a “touch event model,” following in line with other European court decisions rejecting the patent.
The Dutch court’s ruling reaffirmed a decision it made in August 2011, when
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently rejected claims of fraud on the PTO in connection with a musician’s federal registration for the name of the Mexican band Grupo Pegasso.
Frontera Music had sought to cancel Federico Estevan Vasquez’s registration for the trademark, saying that he falsely claimed
IPNews® – Facebook Inc. was hit with a putative trademark infringement class action on behalf of retailers of officially licensed National Football league merchandise on Monday, alleging it is allowing counterfeiters to post ads for knockoff NFL goods.
Facebook goes so far as to allow counterfeiters’ ads to show up as sponsored links on the
IPNews® – Emblaze Ltd. accused Microsoft Corp. of infringing a patent for an Internet media streaming system in a new lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Friday.
Various features of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7.0 operating systems allegedly violate Emblaze’s rights in U.S. Patent Number 6,389,473, which covers technology used
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively nixed Apple Inc.’s patent for its iPhone “rubber banding” screen bounce-back feature, a patent that was key to the company’s $1 billion infringement verdict over Samsung Electronics Co. earlier this year.
The PTO declared all 20 claims of U.S. Patent No, 7,469,381 to be invalid